psychological strain

collocation in English

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psychological
adjective
uk
/ˌsaɪ.kəlˈɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
relating to the human mind ...
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strain
noun
uk
/streɪn/us
/streɪn/
a force or influence that stretches, pulls, or puts pressure on something, sometimes ...
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(Definition ofpsychologicalandstrainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thepsychologicalstrainof a fast and crisis-ridden industrialisation process is supposed to have provoked an antimodern sentiment in large parts of the population.
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I believe that the current situation is putting untold emotional andpsychologicalstrainon farmers.
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I am thinking here, for example, of in vitro fertilization, which places an enormous physical andpsychologicalstrainon women.
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Yet another grim fact, illustrating thepsychologicalstrainof unemployment, is the number of men in the sample who were living apart from their wives.
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Anybody looking at this can see that the man was suffering from a terriblepsychologicalstrain, the strain of being a traitor.
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But thepsychologicalstrainassociated with the uncertainty of not knowing why an application has been rejected is detrimental to a prisoner.
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They are being subjected to hugepsychologicalstrain, which is inhumane and degrading treatment in itself.
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Added to the physical andpsychologicalstrainof working in a new occupation, there is the strain of long hours spent in travelling.
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That imposes a greatpsychologicalstrain.
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We see thepsychologicalstrain.
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Tours at the station were limited to one year because of thepsychologicalstrainand physical hardships.
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Apsychologicalstrainis formed by at least two stresses or pressures, pushing the individual to different directions.
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With the simultaneous technique being extremely new, interpreters practically trained themselves, but many could not handle the pressure or thepsychologicalstrain.
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It has been widely employed to examine workplace pressures and their relationship with research data on coronary heart disease, musculoskeletal illnesses,psychologicalstrainand absenteeism.
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Thepsychologicalstrainappearing in some individual cases is normally neither articulated nor acknowledged in public.
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Sarasa undergoespsychologicalstrainover having to pretend to be a boy.
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