maladjustment

Example Sentences

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To be clear: I am not suggesting that intelligence across the full range of scores is generally related to maladjustment.

From Scientific American

“I see. And that is where those trifling maladjustments come in which you mentioned awhile ago—steel, hydroponics and so on.”

From Literature

A Western observer might shrink in horror from this practice, imagining long-lasting emotional maladjustments from early trauma.

From Washington Post

Researchers examined teenagers’ mobile phone use and their subsequent changes in wellbeing over four years of high school from 2010 to 2013, and found increasingly unencumbered access led to increases in psychosocial maladjustment.

From The Guardian

The question, now, is what to do if the period of “maladjustment” that lasts decades, or possibly a lifetime, as the latest evidence suggests.

From Washington Post