parental rejection
collocation in Englishmeaningsofparentalandrejection
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parental
adjective
uk/pəˈren.təl/us/pəˈren.t̬əl/
relating to parents or to being ...
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rejection
noun
uk/rɪˈdʒek.ʃən/us/rɪˈdʒek.ʃən/
the act of refusing to accept, use, or believe someone ...
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(Definition ofparentalandrejectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Individuals with dismissing attachment strategies are likely to have childhood histories of avoidant attachment marked byparentalrejection.
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Our data on school-age children's reports ofparentalrejectioncorroborate our findings on the powerful effects of personality disorder on parenting.
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Parentalrejectionincluded behaviors that were dismissive of the child's needs for nurturance.
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From these items we constructed two global scales: parental acceptance andparentalrejection.
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For example,parentalrejectioncould elevate the risk for psychopathology, because rejection leads to lax discipline, which in turn promotes psychological dysfunction.
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The last sentence seems to describe a sort of psychological anguish arising from a sort of counterfactualparentalrejection.
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Ultimate explanations also do not account for the distribution of crying above the low threshold ofparentalrejection.
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Most of these studies, however, did not control for factors that past research has shown to be strongly correlated with child depression, such asparentalrejection.
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The family process for these boys presented a picture of parental neglect or indifference, rather than of the coercive discipline and strongparentalrejectionof the high conduct-problem boys.
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Conflict between parents,parentalrejectionof the child, low parental involvement with the child—these are the matters of concern.
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It is not due toparentalrejectionor "refrigerator" parents.
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In effect, perhaps this is more a denunciation of himself than of the child, but the effect upon the child of this publicparentalrejectionis damaging beyond all measure.
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Caroline is a disturbed teenager, who has struggled all her life with an elevated state of depression due to inferiority complex andparentalrejection.
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