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dispositional

dispositional

1 7.4
Showing a person's usual mood, character or way of behaving
  • adjective
  • /ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃənl/
translation icon : disposicional
  • A dispositional tendency to be cheerful can positively influence relationships.
  • dispositional sympathy
  • dispositional attribution
  • dispositional empathy

Examples

  • 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.

  • What are other key dispositional and instructional strategies in addition to those described in this article?

    Academic text (2013)
  • The second main finding was that attention was a function of dispositional factors, not text location.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The two most common of these dispositional barriers are age and educational background.

    Academic text (1996)
  • More thought will be given to thinking about the person; hence the increase in dispositional attributions.

    Academic text (1991)
  • We found four key teaching perspectives that connected in direct ways to three main dispositional strategies and three central instructional strategies.

    Academic text (2013)
  • First, researchers must show that some situations can, in fact, overwhelm most dispositional variation in bringing about behavior.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Individual factors include personality, chronic dispositional coping styles, and self-categorizations.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Attributions are then made to either internal (dispositional) or external (situational) causes.

    Academic text (1991)
  • More importantly, there are initial data indicating that dispositional regulation and emotionality sometimes may interact in predicting empathy-related reactions.

    Academic text (1998)

Synonyms

affective
vsdispositional
8 6.8

Relating to feelings or emotions

is broader, covering general mood and behaviour tendency not only emotions
temperamental
vsdispositional
7 6.3

About a person's usual mood or character

focuses on usual mood or tendency rather than fixed natural constitution
predispositional
vsdispositional
  • Specialized
9.3

Showing a natural or inherited tendency to develop a health condition

describes usual mood or recurring behaviour rather than future susceptibility

Surface Forms

dispositional positive

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.