overrestrained

adj

overrestrained

adj

Etymology From over- + restrained.

1

Excessively restrained.

The patient felt unable to tolerate his alternately seductive and passive, overrestrained behavior.1959, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, page 143:
It continues to pin bankers in an overregulated and overrestrained structure and adds considerable microregulatory imperatives.1992, Proceedings of a Conference on Bank Structure and Competition:

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Are the youth's behaviors under- or overrestrained? Overrestrained youth tend to be older, more socialized, deceptively mature, academically functional, more violent, and commit fewer CD behaviors than underrestrained youth (Loeber & Hay, 1997).2007, Bruce A. Thyer, John S. Wodarski, Social Work in Mental Health: An Evidence-Based Approach, →ISBN, page 104:

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