FRUSTRATION, CONFLICT AND ANXIETY OF HUMAN BEINGS

Frustration - the unpleasant feelings that result from the

blocking of motive satisfaction.
THE COMMON SOURCE OF FRUSTRATION ARE:
i. Physical Obstacles - Physical barriers or circumstances that
prevents a person from doing his plan.
ii. Social Circumstances - Are restrictions or
circumstances imposed by other people.
iii. Personal Shortcomings - Such as being handicapped.
iv. Conflicts between motives - Desirable and undesirable
motives collides

Conflict - Refers to the simultaneous arousal of two or more

Incompatible motive resulting to unpleasant emotions.
TYPES OF CONFLICT:
Double Approach Conflict - A person is motivated to engage
in two desirable activities that cannot be pursued
simultaneously.
(Approach means positive)
(Avoidance means negative)
(approach-Avoidance means positive and negative)
Double Avoidance Conflict - A person faces two undesirable
situations in which the avoidance of one is the exposure to
the other resulting to an intense emotion.
Approach Avoidance Conflict - A person faces situation
having both desirable and an undesirable. (Also called
dilemma)
Multiple Approach Avoidance - A situation in
which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives
each has both positive and negative features.
(Approach-Approach-Avoidance) Or (Avoidance-Avoidance-
Approach)
Anxiety - is a fear or nervousness about what might happen, a
feeling of wanting to do something very much.

TYPES OF ANXIETY DISORDERS

 Generalized anxiety disorder - This disorder involves
unrealistic worry and tension, even if there is a little or
nothing to provoke the anxiety.
 Obsessive-Compulsive disorder - People with OCD are plague
with constant thoughts or fears that cause them to perform
certain rituals or routines.
 Panic disorder - The person has a feeling of impending
doom of death. This condition has feelings of terror that
strike suddenly and repeatedly with no warnings.
 Post-Traumatic stress disorder - PTSD is a condition that
can develop a traumatic and terrifying event.
 Specific phobias - Is an exaggerated, unrealistic fear of
specific SITUATION, ACTIVITY or OBJECT.
E.G.
 Anuptaphobia - Fear of being single
 Gamophobia-Fear of marriage
 Coitophobia - Fear of sexual intercourse
 Philophobia-Fear of falling in love or being loved
 Kopophobia-Fear of mental and physical exam
 Hematophobia - Fear of blood
 Thanatophobia - Fear of death
 Social anxiety disorder - It involves overwhelming worry and
self-consciousness about everyday social situations.
THREE TYPES OF ANXIETY ACCORDING TO SIGMUND FREUD
1. Reality anxiety- Refers to fear in real dangers in external
world
2. Neurotic anxiety - Refers to fear that instincts will get out
of control and cause the person to do something for which she/he
will be punished.
3. Moral anxiety - Is the fear of conscience. People with well-
developed super ego tend to feel guilty when they do something
that is contrary to the moral code by which they have been
raised.

THE EGO DEFENSE MECHANISM

The ego defense mechanism is a tool that help defend the ego,
when the ego has a difficult time making both the id and the
super-ego happy. It will deploy one or more of his defense
mechanisms.

EXAMPLE OF HUMAN EGO DEFENSE MECHANISM:

Denial - Arguing against an anxiety provoking stimulus by
stating it doesn't exist.
Displacement - Discharging pent-up emotion on objects less
dangerous than those that initially aroused the emotion.
Regression - Returning to a previous stage of development.
Projection - Placing unacceptable impulses in yourself onto
someone else.
Intellectualization - Avoiding unacceptable
emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects,
Rationalization - Supplying a logical rational reason as
opposed to the real reason.
Reaction formation - Taking the opposite belief because the
true belief causes anxiety.
Compartmentalization – it is a divide and conquer' process
for separating thoughts that will conflict with one another.
Compensation - where a person has a weakness in one area,
they may compensate by accentuating or building up strengths
in one another
Idealization - Is the over estimation of the desirable
qualities and underestimation of the limitations of the
desired things.
Aim inhibition - Lowering one's goal which he believes is
actually more possible and realistic
Self-harming - the person physically deliberately hurts
himself/herself in some way or otherwise puts themselves at
high risk of harm.
Positive coping - there are a number of approaches that we
can take to cope in a positive way with problems.
Substitution - this takes something that leads to discomfort
and replace it with something that does not lead to
discomfort.
Trivializing - when we are faced with a disappointment over
something, with the problem of having our expectations and
predictions dashed.
Attack - When a person feels threatened or attack, they will
attack back.