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Spanish translation: comportamiento cambiante/ambivalente

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English term or phrase:	hot-and-cold behavior
Spanish translation:	comportamiento cambiante/ambivalente
Entered by:	Mariana Solanet

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13:36 Nov 2, 2011

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Medical - Psychology / psychological reports/profiles

English term or phrase: hot-and-cold behavior

Son perfiles de personas evaluadas por el inventario MCMI-III de psicología.
Busco el término en español que define este tipo de comportamiento.
Será "comportamiento frío-calor"?

As a result, she may be stereotyped as a person who dampens spirits, a self-pitying malcontent who demoralizes and obstructs the pleasures of others."
"There is also likely to be a struggle between acting out and curtailing resentment.
Her periodic apologetic, aggrieved, sulking, unpredictable, **hot-and-cold behavior*** may induce significant others to react in a similarly inconsistent manner.

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Mariana Solanet KudoZ activity Questions: 104 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (12 closed without grading) Answers: 659 Argentina
Local time: 18:42

cambiante

Explanation:
Diría cambiante o ambivalente.
Saludos.

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mariar
Uruguay
Local time: 18:42

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temperamental

evelyn beltrán

Comportamiento inestable / personalidad inestable o ciclotímica

macielsuazo

Conducta alternante de acercamiento/alejamiento

jortimara

3 +1

cambiante

mariar

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cambiante

Explanation:
Diría cambiante o ambivalente.
Saludos.

mariar
Uruguay
Local time: 18:42
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PRO pts in category: 8

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Conducta alternante de acercamiento/alejamiento

Explanation:
No hay un término exacto para este término, ya que en inglés se utiliza a nivel normal (no específicamente psicológico) y engloba varios términos psicológicos (acercamiento/alejamiento; aceptación/rechazo...). En cualquier caso implica estas dos conductos opuestas.

jortimara
Local time: 23:42
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Spanish
PRO pts in category: 11

2 hrs confidence:

Comportamiento inestable / personalidad inestable o ciclotímica

Explanation:
Este trastorno de la personalidad se caracteriza esencialmente por la inestabilidad del estado de ánimo. Son personas que pasan, con extraordinaria facilidad, de sentirse alegres y contentas, al abatimiento y al desánimo.
El término ciclotímico se refiere precisamente a estas oscilaciones de aparición cíclica, en el terreno de lo timérico; es decir, en el campo de lo emocional y sentimental, de lo afectivo.

Reference: http://www.mercaba.org/Delgado/Personalidad/1-04.htm
Reference: http://www.psicoactiva.com/cie10/cie10_36.htm

macielsuazo
Dominican Republic
Local time: 17:42
Native speaker of:

Spanish

2 hrs confidence:

temperamental

Explanation:
hot and cold behavior=temperamental

evelyn beltrán
United States
Local time: 17:42
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish

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