psychologically

psychological | American Dictionary

psychological
adjective
us/ˌsɑɪ·kəˈlɑdʒ·ɪ·kəl/
relating to the study of the mind:
psychological testing
Her problems were psychological.
Psychological also means having an effect on or involving the mind:
psychological stress/well-being
Her new novel is a psychological thriller.

psychologically

adverbus/ˌsɑɪ·kəˈlɑdʒ·ɪ·kli/
Gifted children are well-adjusted, popular, and psychologically healthy.

psychological | Business English

psychological
adjective
uk /ˌsaɪkəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/us
relating to the human mind and feelings:
The experience of being fired has had lasting psychological effects.
The rail disaster had a psychological impact on some investors.

Examples of psychological

psychological
Transitions to caregiving, gender, and psychological well-being : a prospective us national study.
Does she also consider the family as a primary unit in which psychological weakness is a source of power after retirement ?
Any categorisation of chronological age obscures the physiological, psychological and social diversity of older people.
Here we add in the mediating variables of dietary change to examine what effect they have on this key element of psychological well-being.
To this end it is disappointing that the book has paid only scant attention to the psychological processes in the disorder.
The concept of value orientations has received much attention in sociological and psychological literature over the past forty years.
The unsatisfactory housing of these older people can be expected to have consequences for their physical and psychological well-being.
Since the key issue is the psychological pressure that law can exert on every individual mind, the law must be clear, well diffused, and foreseeable.
In discussing pain and discomfort avoidance, he also emphasises the interplay of physical and psychological factors.
The impact of care-giving on care-givers : factors associated with the psychological well-being of people supporting a dementing relative in the community.
As such, ethnicity as ideology provides a psychological formula which mitigates the uncertainties of state- society relations.
Secondary aims were to study the relationship between psychological, endocrine and immune variables and baseline tumour characteristics.
Psychological therapies, family treatments and vocational rehabilitation are described.
Psychological distress among older primary care attenders is associated with frequent attendance.
Many people with symptoms of psychological distress do not seek professional help.
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