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maladjustment|mæləˈdʒʌstmənt|
[f. mal- + adjustment.]
Faulty adjustment. spec. in Psychol., unsuccessful adaptation to one's social environment.
1833Chalmers Const. Man i. vii. (1834) II. 7 This mal⁓adjustment between the voice that nature gives forth on the right of property, and the voice that arbitrary law gives forth upon it. 1878Newcomb Pop. Astron. iii. iii. 297 They may also arise from a slight maladjustment of the lenses of the eye-piece. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 274 Whether the maladjustment is corrigible. 1909E. T. Devine in Fabian News Dec. 94/1 Not poverty and not punishment explains the misery of our modern commercial and industrial communities, but rather social maladjustment. 1923J. S. Huxley Ess. Biologist i. 55 Whatever overstress and maladjustment the complexity of modern civilization has brought with it. 1930R. S. Woodworth Psychol. (ed. 8) xiii. 565 This..picture of the situation in which the maladjustment arose is of value to the troubled adult. 1949E. Jenkins Six Criminal Women 166 Cook did not take to the road through want, but rather from what the psychiatrists call ‘maladjustment’. 1965J. R. Wittenborn in B. B. Wolman Handbk. Clin. Psychol. 1039/1 Evidence of periodic or constant maladjustment of varying degree from early life. 1970R. C. Carson Interaction Concepts of Personality vi. 203 Processes that appear to be implicated in the acquisition of maladjustment within the family. |