The phrase "address the tendency" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a specific behavior or pattern that needs to be acknowledged or dealt with.
Example: "In our analysis, we must address the tendency for employees to work overtime without compensation."
Alternatives: "tackle the trend" or "confront the inclination".
"Decades", by the London/Oslo practice Hesselbrand, will try to address the tendency towards "under-occupancy among the elderly and over-occupancy among young", whereby old people are tending to live in homes bigger than they now need, while "living rooms and even bathrooms become bedrooms".
An additional final step is then taken to address the tendency for 'spirals of silence' among supporters of unpopular parties causing an inadvertent bias in voting polls.
The expressive suppression items clearly address the tendency of participants not to show their emotions: "I keep my emotions to myself", "When I am feeling positive emotions, I am careful not to express them"., "I control my emotions by not expressing them".
The 'in-residence' model has emerged to address the tendency of people with expert knowledge to socialise and work with like-minded people.
Future interventions targeted at parents need to address the tendency of parents to find alternative explanations for symptoms and the perceived barriers to access, in addition to symptom awareness.
"The challenge that remains," they write toward the end of their book, "is to figure out how to address the tendencies that lead to false scientific belief".
Inside Living Water, senior pastor Amy Urban addressed the tendency to feel afraid in the aftermath of terrifying events.
In it, she addressed the tendency towards "largely insignificant non-playable female characters whose sexuality or victimhood is exploited as a way to infuse edgy, gritty or racy flavoring into game worlds".
At a screening last Tuesday followed by a Q & A panel, creator and writer Mara Brock Akil addressed the tendency to think of people involved in morally deteriorating circumstances with judgmental eyes, when in reality they are often good people and things aren't that black and white.
The Bayesian model addresses the tendency of the agreement score to be biased upwards for raters who, by chance, see a relatively 'easy' set of samples.
Gametocyte positivity was defined as the proportion of parasite positive infections that also carried gametocytes and thus addressed the tendency to produce gametocytes during each infection.
