situation

situation
The aggregate of biological, psychological, and sociological factors that affect an individual's behavioral pattern.
- psychoanalytic s. the relationship, characteristically restricted to the therapist's office, between patient and therapist.

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sit·u·a·tion .sich-ə-'wā-shən n
1) the way in which something is placed in relation to its surroundings
2) the total set of physical, social, and psychocultural factors that act upon an individual in orienting and conditioning his or her behavior
3) relative position or combination of circumstances at a particular moment

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sit·u·a·tion (sich″-aґshən) the combination of factors that an individual is confronted with; in psychology, the sum of physical, psychological, and sociocultural factors that act on persons and influence their behavior.

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