maladaptive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-?
Proto-Italic *malos
Latin malus
Latin maleder.
Old French mal-
English mal-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Italic *aptos
Latin aptus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin apiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
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Latin -ō
Latin -tō
Latin aptō
Latin adaptōder.
Middle English *adapten
English adapt
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English adaptive
English maladaptive
From mal- + adaptive.
Inflected forms:
form: more maladaptive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most maladaptive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of behavior, showing inadequate or counterproductive mental and behavioral adaptation to a new situation.
pos: adj
examples: It seemed likely that in the apparently maladaptive responses of workers to computer-based technology (what many called “resistance to change”), it would be possible to trace a lineage of ordinary assumptions that referred back to the realities of the past and their points of disjuncture with the future.
The learned helplessness explanation of sex differences in depression would be supported if it was shown that a greater degree of uncontrollability and a more maladaptive explanatory style in women account for any sex differences observed in depression in the sample.
An individual's functioning can be conceptualized on a continuum, with one end being more adaptive and healthy and the other end being more maladaptive and less healthy.
Some programmatic responses to power issues are more maladaptive for particular clients, such as women, because they affect their role expectations.
Yet, generalizing the western culture view on autism among all cultures can be maladaptive (Ma et al., 2021). The view of some ASD behaviors, like lack of communication, can be generalized for all cultures. Having an ASD official diagnosis is based on observing ASD atypical behaviors. However, these ASD atypical behaviors are considered atypical depending on the Western cultural view.
gloss: Of anatomy, physiology, or behavior, showing inadequate or counterproductive evolutionary adaptation to an environment or its changes.
pos: adj
examples: The mismatch is the result of an adaptive lag that occurs when the environment that produced an evolved mechanism changes more rapidly than the time it takes for the mechanism to adapt to the change. This theory posits that many of the physical and psychological traits that were originally selected for because they were at the time advantageous for survival and reproduction may not only no longer be useful but can even be maladaptive.
Derived words: maladaptively
maladaptiveness
maladaptivity
nonmaladaptive
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: неприспособен
roman: neprisposoben
lang: German
word: maladaptiv
lang: German
word: ungeschickt
lang: German
word: unangepasst
lang: German
word: fehlangepasst
lang: German
word: schlecht angepasst
lang: Turkish
word: maladaptif