dysfunctional attitude

collocation in English

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dysfunctional
adjective
uk
/dɪsˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/
us
/dɪsˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/
not behaving or ...
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attitude
noun
uk
/ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/
us
/ˈæt̬.ə.tuːd/
a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused ...
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(Definition ofdysfunctionalandattitudefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They concluded that dysfunctional attitudes are a state dependent symptom.
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This would suggest that even minimal treatment such as self-help groups may improve bulimic behaviours and dysfunctional attitudes, at least in the short-term.
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Mood matters : negative mood induction activates dysfunctional attitudes in women vulnerable to depression.
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Areas of interest have included dysfunctional attitudes, autobiographical memory, goal striving, theory of mind, and emotion perception.
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The data on self-esteem and dysfunctional attitudes may also provide a further challenge to the conventional view that mania is the polar opposite of depression.
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In contrast, in our clinical sample, sib-pair study, we have found only limited evidence that dysfunctional attitudes have trait-like qualities.
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Thus, we conclude that dysfunctional attitudes reflect present mood-state, rather than a familial vulnerability trait underpinning depression.
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For example, there was a non-significant correlation between distraction and rumination factor 1 as well as distraction and dysfunctional attitudes.
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However, modifying dysfunctional attitudes and emphasizing relapse prevention may be crucial to reducing relapse rates among older adults with early-onset depression.
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Dysfunctional attitudes combined with life events did not predict subsequent depressive or hypomanic symptoms.
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If, as proposed, early-onset depression is associated with a greater cognitive vulnerability to depression, then cognitive therapy for these individuals may take longer to produce changes in dysfunctional attitudes.
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The siblings of depressed probands, did not differ significantly in their dysfunctional attitudes from the siblings of control probands, (excluding all siblings who have had an episode of depression).
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This study examines the familiality and stability of dysfunctional attitudes and attempts to distinguish whether they reflect trait vulnerability to depression or the state of being depressed.
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Dysfunctional attitudes in depressed and recovered depressed patients and their first-degree relatives.
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A third possibility is that perhaps a bulimic subject is more able to make use of the nutritional knowledge when the distorted cognitions and dysfunctional attitudes are changed.
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Consequently, subjects who had been depressed in the past, endorsed more dysfunctional attitudes when their mood was low, than those who had no such past history.
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Certain rumination responses to depression were associated with higher levels of depression and hopelessness, faulty attribution and dysfunctional attitudes when gender and the level of depression were controlled.
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