The phrase "a predisposition toward" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a tendency or inclination someone has towards a particular behavior, attitude, or condition.
Example: "She has a predisposition toward anxiety, which often affects her decision-making."
Alternatives: "an inclination towards" or "a tendency to".
He has developed a questionnaire meant to identify people with a predisposition toward becoming active bystanders.
What about the skills that build a predisposition toward empathy and compromise?
Research shows that a predisposition toward extreme emotions and an invalidating environment must conspire to produce the cluster of symptoms that make up borderline personality disorder.
However, if liberalism involves not only an ideology but a predisposition toward hope — a generosity of expectation — then Lerner's question may not have so easy an answer.
They ruled out anyone who counselors surmised might have a predisposition toward anorexia or bulimia — disorders that might conceivably be triggered by the new diet.
"Trauma pushes your ability to cope, so if you have a predisposition toward anxiety, for example, it may push you over the edge," says Roberts.
From the patient's perspective, for instance, how might knowledge of a genetic predisposition toward a specific disease affect his or her thinking?
And finally, the researchers point out that some people seem to have a biological predisposition toward a more careful personality.
There were other factors that fed Allen's phobic inclinations as well: a hereditary predisposition toward phobias; a childhood desire to emulate his father (who suffered from an array of phobias, including a distaste for airplanes, bridges and elevators); and a tendency to internalize his overprotective mother's warnings about the perils of the world.
The third possibility is that inability to cope and ill health may have a common origin, such as a genetic predisposition toward general frailty.
As they acknowledge, there is a consensus among "experts" (a word they use disdainfully) that there is a genetic predisposition toward alcoholism in some people.
