Adaptive
Adaptive behaviour is a characteristic of an individual's social and practical ability to deal with everyday activity of life. Over a period of time, species experience evolutionary or climatic changes, adaptive behaviour helps to cope with such changes and prepare a better lifestyle for future generations to come.
Children with mental disabilities exhibit certain adaptive skills that help to determine the kind of support he/she requires for success in home, school or elsewhere. Being adaptive helps an individual sail along in this ever changing world. Individuals with good adaptive skills are well liked and are socially acceptable.
Not adapting to situations or coping with daily activities make an individual maladaptive. Maladaptation leads to problems like avoidance, withdrawing oneself from social activities or interaction, leads to development of passive-aggressive and other self harming behaviours. According to the psychoanalytic, When the ego is not competent enough to sort the disparity between Id and Super ego, it adapts to the reality in a maladaptive way, which leads to most of the neurotic disorders.