Rather than helping a person to successfully cope, abnormal behaviors make it more difficult for the person to meet the everyday demands of life. Thus, this core feature of all abnormal behavior refers to the behavior being
a. culturally relative.
b. subjectively painful.
c. statistically deviant.
d. maladaptive.
D
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