maladjustment

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To be clear: I am not suggesting that intelligence across the full range of scores is generally related to maladjustment.

From Scientific American • Feb. 10, 2019

Studies show that child survivors of a parent’s suicide might as adults be susceptible to depression, social maladjustment and post-traumatic stress disorder.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 12, 2018

It attempts to make him face up to the human condition as it really is, to free him from illusions that are bound to cause constant maladjustment and disappointment.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2016

The N.I.M.H.’s own data showed that these centers were largely treating not people with severe mental illness, but those with “social maladjustment or no mental disorder” — better known as the worried well.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2014

By 1977, Scruggs had written articles for The Washington Post and Military Medicine exposing the maladjustment of veterans who’d seen heavy combat.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge