Examples of 'maladaptive' in a sentence

Meaning of "maladaptive"

Maladaptive refers to behaviors or traits that are not helpful or conducive to an individual's well-being or success in a particular environment.
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  • Showing inadequate or counterproductive mental and behavioral adaptation to a new situation.
  • Showing inadequate or counterproductive evolutionary adaptation to an environment or its changes.

How to use "maladaptive" in a sentence

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Maladaptive perfectionists often experience a fear of failure.
This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as maladaptive plasticity.
Genes so maladaptive should have been selected out.
They have a whole load of maladaptive behaviours.
Our maladaptive emotions are based on past schemas.
Then the mind can be cleansed of maladaptive.
Represent maladaptive variants of personality traits that.
A false memory is not necessarily maladaptive.
That would be one of the maladaptive psychological symptoms.
Maladaptive daydreaming is not a psychosis issue.
Many health problems are due to maladaptive personal behaviors.
Maladaptive daydreamers can spend hours simply daydreaming.
The indifferent students slightly highlighted maladaptive perfectionism.
Substance abuse is a maladaptive response to ongoing problems in living.
It is certainly true that the lack of action is maladaptive.

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Maladaptive grieving is also thought to be linked to suicide risk.
These alterations could be adaptive or maladaptive.
Maladaptive habits alter our general sensory feedback.
The two types are adaptive versus maladaptive humour.
We discover our maladaptive behaviors and irrational beliefs.
Evaluation and classification of normal and maladaptive behavior.
Maladaptive behavior must also be reported.
The characteristics of early maladaptive schemas.
Maladaptive eating behaviors should also receive proper attention.
To be too bold or too aggressive is to be maladaptive.
This is particularly maladaptive in academia.
Correcting maladaptive responses of the body to certain food items.
Behavior modification is also useful in reducing or eliminating maladaptive behaviors.
Maladaptive brain activity change.
Adaptive and maladaptive coping.
Maladaptive beliefs about training.
This effect may be understood as maladaptive auditory cortex reorganization.
Maladaptive gambling behavior.
And personality or maladaptive behaviours.
These are maladaptive methods as they serve to maintain the disorder.
The available drug treatment only acts on secondary maladaptive symptoms.
This maladaptive behaviour has to be a problem large enough to be considered a diagnosis.
Or adaptive and maladaptive.
These socially maladaptive behaviors result in inevitable interpersonal conflict and frustration.
Symptoms are often masked as either physical symptoms or other maladaptive behaviors.
Changing maladaptive thinking.
This scale can help determine if a person is experiencing maladaptive daydreaming.
Maladaptive perfectionists often do not realize how their behavior affects others.
The behavior is maladaptive.
She defined neurosis as a maladaptive and counterproductive way of dealing with relationships.
Adaptation to a very different ancestral environment may be maladaptive in the current one.
Adaptive or maladaptive functions which these states may serve for man.
At first seems maladaptive.
Devout religious beliefs wherein such traditions are practiced therefore appear maladaptive.
This adaptive behavior may become maladaptive behavior in your adult relationships.

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