stressful circumstances

collocation in English

meaningsofstressfulandcircumstance

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stressful
adjective
uk
/ˈstres.fəl/us
/ˈstres.fəl/
making you feel worried ...
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circumstance
noun
uk
/ˈsɜː.kəm.stɑːns/us
/ˈsɝː.kəm.stæns/
a fact or event that makes a situation the way ...
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(Definition ofstressfulandcircumstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This inability to provide minimal interactive support for the infant's development of affect regulation particularly in stressful circumstances, they reason, fosters disorganization.
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This form of impulsive aggression generally occurs rapidly, in the context of trivial and stressful circumstances, and typically in isolation.
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Semistructured interviews were administered to parents and youngsters to assess child psychiatric disorder, episodic stress, and chronic stressful circumstances.
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In all four cases, however, the task took place in stressful circumstances.
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Rather, along with the disruptive influence of psychiatric disorder itself on children's lives, other stable characteristics of depression-prone individuals may lead them to create stressful circumstances.
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Third, the model considers the role of chronic stressful circumstances in child depression.
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Anything can trigger the problems, particularly in a subject who is in stressful circumstances as these men and women were.
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He is also an avid knitter and knits in stressful circumstances.
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Normal psychological mechanisms for control of property, partner or personal safety may not appear to be sufficient under certain stressful circumstances and abnormal mechanisms develop.
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Other caudal luring-like movements occur as warning signals and are induced by stressful circumstances.
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Humor the individual steps outside of a situation in order to gain greater perspective, and also to highlight any comic aspect to be found in their stressful circumstances.
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Hamilton subsequently spoke about the relationship between the stressful circumstances of his personal life -- in particular the mental illness of his wife; and the brevity of the poems.
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Hamilton subsequently spoke about the relationship between the stressful circumstances of his personal life -- in particular the mental illness of his wife -- and the brevity of the poems.
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