dispositional
- adjective
- /ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃənl/
- A dispositional tendency to be cheerful can positively influence relationships.
- dispositional sympathy
- dispositional attribution
- dispositional empathy
Examples
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So it is some sort of dispositional trait that does connect with happiness, but notice that it connects up with a very shifting social world.
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What are other key dispositional and instructional strategies in addition to those described in this article?
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The second main finding was that attention was a function of dispositional factors, not text location.
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The two most common of these dispositional barriers are age and educational background.
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More thought will be given to thinking about the person; hence the increase in dispositional attributions.
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We found four key teaching perspectives that connected in direct ways to three main dispositional strategies and three central instructional strategies.
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First, researchers must show that some situations can, in fact, overwhelm most dispositional variation in bringing about behavior.
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Individual factors include personality, chronic dispositional coping styles, and self-categorizations.
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Attributions are then made to either internal (dispositional) or external (situational) causes.
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More importantly, there are initial data indicating that dispositional regulation and emotionality sometimes may interact in predicting empathy-related reactions.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
Relating to feelings or emotions
About a person's usual mood or character
Showing a natural or inherited tendency to develop a health condition
Surface Forms
Morphology
dispositional = disposition (transparent) = disposition + al
The adjective is formed regularly from the noun 'disposition' with -al, meaning 'relating to' the base noun.
Etymology
Dispositional comes from disposition, made of dis- ('apart') and the same root as position ('place'), so you can picture a person's feelings and habits as how they are 'placed' inside them. That is why a dispositional quality is about a person's usual mood or tendency.