overpersonalize

present singular third person overpersonalizes · participle present overpersonalizing · participle past overpersonalized · past overpersonalized · alternative overpersonalise

1. transitiveTo 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.

   1974, Samuel A. Culbert, The organization trap and how to get out of it, page 140

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   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.

   1996, Lucille L. Andreozzi, Child-Centered Family Therapy, →ISBN, page 44

   A second key skill for sustaining your emotional coherence is learning not to overpersonalize your deficits, since this just makes the energy drain worse.

   2003, Doc Childre, Deborah Rozman, Transforming Anger, →ISBN

   Antonyms: underpersonalize