The phrase "a general propensity of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a common tendency or inclination that is observed in a particular context or among a group.
Example: "There is a general propensity of people to seek comfort in familiar routines during times of stress."
Alternatives: "a common tendency of" or "a general inclination of".
Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that both problem gambling and general gambling involvement loaded on single factors with other measures of risk, suggesting that gambling represents one expression of a general propensity for risk-taking.
Secondly, it is possible that factors associated with a general propensity to report high numbers of symptoms differ from those associated with reporting any one individual symptom.
In fish genomes, there is a general propensity to encode a higher number of proteins that, by virtue of conserved active amino acid motifs and retention of chitin-binding domains, are predicted to encode active chitinases.
Predisposing factors include a general propensity to both emotional and physical distress, a history of abuse, being more than usually physically active and being perfectionist.
Type D personality refers to a general propensity to psychological distress that is defined by the combination of negative affectivity and social inhibition [ 17].
Thus, the Eurasian jays' preference for the out- of- view location cannot be explained by a general propensity to not see conspecifics before caching.
Prevarication about sex does not by itself prove a general propensity to lie.
The state's highest court also said this difficulty need not be a sexual compulsion but could be a general propensity for violence resulting from a mental disorder.
Bioinformatic analyses indicate that miRNAs may have a general propensity to regulate transcription factors [ 78].
The intellect was described as a general (innate) propensity made up of a series of more specific (equally innate) propensities, the number of which was a function of the number of different things the intellect is able to know: "The intellective power is a general propensity with respect to all intelligibles, that is, with respect to the actual conforming to all intelligibles.
