Class of procedures for predicting the values of a response variable when the value of one or more explanatory variables is known.
Partial or symbolic return to earlier patterns of reacting or thinking. Manifested in a wide variety of circumstances such as normal sleep, play, physical illness, and many mental disorders. Also, a defense mechanism consisting of a return to some earlier level of adaptation.
A defense mechanism.
A stage where symptoms of a disease art disappearing and the person is getting better.
(In psychiatry) the process of returning to a mental state which existed when the person was younger.
A statistical method used to measure and express the effect one variable, the “independent variable,” has on another variable, the “dependent variable.” A physician may want to increase the concentration of a drug in a patient’s blood. The question: if the physician doubles the dose of a given drug (the dosage of the drug is the independent variable, because it can be controlled), will it double the concentration of the drug (the dependent variable) in the patient’s blood, or will it less than double, and will the effects vary from patient to patient? Regression is used to help answer this question. A collection of data on drug dosages (related to patients’ weights, for example) and the same patients’ blood concentrations of the drug are analyzed by an appropriate regression method. The analysis will tell the relationship between doses and blood levels—not only the probable increases (or decreases, which could happen) in proportion to dosage, but also the ranges of response which are likely to occur.
Return to an earlier condition, especially the retreat of an adult into childlike behavior.
To move backward to a previous state of events, previous development, or primitive behavior.
A return to an earlier, less mature developmental stage in the face of stress. For example, an adult who sucks his or her thumb on hearing bad news is experiencing regression. Regression helps provide comfort during stress and conflict and is considered a defense mechanism.
Reversion to a more immature level of functioning. The term may be applied to the state of a patient in hospital who becomes incontinent and demanding. It may also be applied to a single psychological function; for example, psychoanalysts speak of the libido regressing to an early stage of development.
Within the realm of psychology, there exists a phenomenon referred to as regression, which entails a reverting back to earlier stages of thinking or behaving, often resembling patterns observed during childhood or infancy.
In psychoanalytic theory, regression refers to the phenomenon of reverting to behaviors typical of childhood, like thumb-sucking.
The inclination for children to show less variation from the population’s average than their parents did.
In psychology, it refers to a mental state and pattern of behavior in which individuals handle challenging or uncomfortable situations in a manner that, while once suitable and satisfying during an earlier stage of development, is no longer appropriate given their current age and social standing. This behavior can be characterized as childlike conduct exhibited by adults.