Sentence examples for pathological attitudes from inspiring English sources

The mother's pathological attitudes towards eating, body shape and weight, could have a direct effect on the child and on the way she nurtures him/her, altering the mother's sensitivity towards the child's needs and reactions and impinging the quality of the relationship [ 22].

("Protest has devolved into an insular subculture of self-hatred, frustration, and anxiety derived from a pathological attitude towards social integration," a typically morose editorial in the Platypus Review declares).

A total of 601 participants completed a battery of self-report measures of BID severity, obsessive beliefs, OCD symptoms, general distress, and pathological eating attitudes.

Pathological postural attitudes such as idiopathic scoliosis also affect postural control [ 10].

In extreme cases, this absorption may become addictive, leading to 'Borderline-pathological' celebrity worship attitudes and behaviors that serve to maintain an individual's satisfaction with the para-social attachment (Giles and Maltby 2004; McCutcheon et al. 2002).

This sort of pathological relationship causes a lasting attitude on the part of females: men are not to be trusted; they are interested only in sex; a girl dare not smile or be friendly lest males interpret it as a sign of sexual availability, and so forth.

Wrapped in a then shocking cover featuring the band in drag, it was a seductive riot of lewd hard rock, glam posturing, girl group plunderings, and a bad attitude that verged on pathological.

One popular critical response to this marriage has been to explain it away as a pathological symptom of the fact that Victorian attitudes towards sexuality hadn't yet caught up with what people actually did with each other in the bedroom.

His attitude is less rivalrous than pathological.

If women do not obtain significant support at the beginning and pathological progression occurs, midwives might change their attitude toward the woman and give her more support/more attendance.

Underlying pathological or psychological conditions can also affect patient attitudes toward dentists and dental health care [ 13].