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:
"Dysfunctional and deviant" would be the correct answer.
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.
