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overpersonalize

verb

Etymology

From over- + personalize.

  1. derived from persōnālis
  2. derived from personal
  3. derived from personel
  4. derived from personal
  5. formed as personalize — “personal + -ize”
  6. prefixed as overpersonalize — “over + personalize”

Definitions

  1. To attribute too much of the cause of something to personal decisions and willpower, and…

    To attribute too much of the cause of something to personal decisions and willpower, and not enough to other factors.

    • Putting this approach into action requires resisting our inclination to overpersonalize our role in problems and miss the systemwide issues.
    • Research on abusive parent-child relationships has found that parents often overpersonalize the child's behavior, attributing more negative than positive motivations to the child.
    • A second key skill for sustaining your emotional coherence is learning not to overpersonalize your deficits, since this just makes the energy drain worse.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA