Question

An individual has a 9-to-5 job. However, this person seldom gets up early enough to be at work on time, and expresses great distress over this fact. This individual's behavior would be considered abnormal because it is:

Answer 1

"Dysfunctional and deviant" would be the correct answer.

Step-by-step explanation:

• Dysfunctional suggests that the ideas or impulses of actions are destructive and conflict with everyday functions. Abnormal activity is harmful in the majority of situations.
• The deviant activity becomes actions that differ significantly from either the social norm. This would be neither positive nor bad from this description alone, however, must always be measured on a case-by-case basis.

That is the correct approach, then.