The phrase "a pervasive pattern of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a consistent and widespread trend or behavior in a particular context, often in psychological or sociological discussions.
Example: "The study revealed a pervasive pattern of anxiety among students during exam periods."
Alternatives: "a widespread trend of" or "a consistent behavior of".
The Harvard study, which was conducted by the university's Civil Rights Project, found a pervasive pattern of racial separation in public schools.
The most severe cases are linked with another personality disorder: sociopathy (formally known as anti-social personality disorder) characterised by a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others.
In the psychiatric association's diagnostic manual, antisocial personality disorder is described as "a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood".
If we are clinically inclined, a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder might better meet the case (I quote from the D.S.M .: "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy".
In the clinical diagnostic manual, the many criteria for narcissistic personality disorder include a "pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration and lack of empathy".
But several Chinese scholars and articles in the official press have also described a pervasive pattern of torture by the police and prosecutors, usually with the acquiescence of the courts.
Feelings raw, head full of death, Eddie botches his big story -- the savage torture and killing of a little girl -- but he blunders into a better one by fitting the crime into a more pervasive pattern of evil involving some of the most prominent men in town.
"Suddenly everyone can share their experiences and we can see it's a more pervasive pattern of behavior and not just one-off isolated incidents," Fileborn added. .
Biederman et al. demonstrated that non-medicated ADHD patients have a more pervasive pattern of cognitive deficits than medicated ADHD ones [ 34].
Why do some of us "fall" over and over again, only sometimes breaking out of a pervasive pattern?
Such phenomenon are neither episodic nor mere coincidence, but part of a pervasive pattern that strongly suggests that the most rabid homophobes are usually gay.
