Frustration

Frustration is a mental state characterized by despair, deep sadness, disappointment, dissatisfaction, anxiety, psychological stupor, irritation, frustration, despair. The very definition of frustration includes the impossibility of satisfying your needs in real life. Up to a certain point, this situation is traumatic for a person. This state is characterized by the continuation of the people's stubborn struggle to get what they want, even if there is no knowledge and the right actions to achieve success.

In recent years, the problem of frustration has been the subject of experimental research in psychology. The state of frustration lays an imprint on the entire psychic life of man. There are certain difficulties in understanding this term. The state of frustration is considered in terms of endurance to life's difficulties and reactions to these complexities.

Frustration in Psychology

I.P.Pavlov repeatedly mentioned the difficulties of life, which can cause adverse conditions in the cerebral cortex of the brain. From his words life is a continuous difficulty and if it arises with a non-stable nervous system, then a person becomes subject to depression. All life's difficulties fall into two categories: surmountable and irresistible.

For enormous difficulties, great effort is required. Often, these difficulties are associated with the mastery of professional qualifications and when mention is made of perseverance, here it is meant just overcoming professional difficulties or mastering professional skills.

The concept of frustration to overcome difficulties does not apply, and if it concerns, it is only when a person surrenders and perceives them as irresistible.

Life difficulties with insurmountable obstacles include cancer;Psychological barriers that arose on the way to the goal;Satisfaction of needs, solution of a psychological problem.

But it is not necessary to reduce all insurmountable life difficulties to barriers that block the planned action. Sometimes, with life's pricks or disappointments for dealing with adversity, you need a firmness of character.

And indeed, it happens that there are difficulties that put a barrier or a barrier, but only conditionally and this hinders, hinders well-being, and also happiness.

Rosenzweig described frustration as a meeting of the organism with more or less insurmountable obstacles, as well as obstructions on the way to satisfying vital needs.

Brown and Farber explain the state of frustration as a result of the conditions at the time of waiting for a braking reaction or warning.

Lawson holds the view that frustration is a conflict between trends: the "goal is reaction" and the trend that arose under the influence of interfering conditions. Thus, frustration is a mental state, for which experience is characteristic;Special behavior caused by insurmountable difficulties appearing on the way to the desired goal, as well as solving the problem.

There is an opinion that frustration is absolutely natural phenomenon and it is necessary in the vital activity of the person or organism.

Mayer believes that the very behavior of a person or an animal depends on such potentials:

1) a repertoire of behavior determined by the conditions of development, heredity, life experience of

2) the following potential includes selection or election processes, as well as mechanisms. They are divided into acting, caused by motivating activities and arising from the frustration of

. The influence of behaviorism on the frustration is greatly influenced. Behaviorism - the direction of psychology about the behavior of animals and humans. What is attributed to the inner world to man, as well as the existence of consciousness and experience is denied by behaviorism, and therefore does not deserve scientific study. But the requirement of objectivity of psychology assumes not the denial of the inner world of man, but the cognition of it by the most objective methods: through experiment, observation, verbal report, self-observation. The position of behaviorism simplifies and distorts the study of frustration.

Frustration studies irritants, as well as those situations that act as frustrators - provocateurs. Bearing in mind frustration as a reaction, we take into account the produced movements, as well as the actions. Often a strong and deep experience of frustration is weakly expressed externally, goes deep, there is an external calm, and in fact the feeling of grief is stronger than those of people who shed tears.

Psychologists say that mental states acquire temporary changes in emotionality and imagination

Types of frustration

The mental state is dependent on the frustrator. Rosenzweig identifies three types and, depending on them, the situations of frustration of the

appear 1) Deprivation is the lack of the necessary to achieve the goal, and also the satisfaction of the need( the person is hungry, and there is no food to get, the attraction to the woman and the realization of his unattractiveness that interferes with the realization of the dream)

2) Losses - death of a loved one, the house burned( external loss)

3) Conflict, namely the internal conflict of a person who loves and wants a married woman who remains faithful to her husband. This desire is strongly blocked.

Fixation during frustration can manifest itself in different directions. In the first person, he continues his activity by inertia, but feels its uselessness, and in the other, the frustrating factor completely absorbs his attention, which contributes to the stereotyping of perception as well as thinking.

The fixation must be perceived as a chained to the frustrator. This need absorbs all the attention of a person, causing the need for a long-term experience, and also to analyze the frustrator. In this case, the stereotyping of non-movements is important, namely perception and thinking. As a special form of fixation, capricious behavior occurs on the action of frustrators.

One of the active form of frustration is the departure to distractions. Together with sthenic manifestations, asthenic reactions to frustrators also arise and, as a consequence, depressive states arise.

For example, the sensations of people with this condition are very severe, immersing in the deepest melancholy and there are problems with sleep, there are difficulties in thinking activity.

Depression against the background of frustration is seen as the opposite phenomenon of aggression. It is not identified with the fixation, because for the fixation, a kind of manic is characteristic. Depression manifests itself in sadness, impotence, awareness of insecurity, hopelessness, temporary stupor, despair, stiffness and apathy.

Like aggression, regression is understood as a movement backwards and it does not always appear as a result of frustration. Its causes may be a deliberate desire to cause pity and thereby achieve the desired. It should be noted that not every aggression is caused by frustration and likewise not every frustration looks for an outlet in aggression.

A typical feature of frustration is emotionality. Children are more emotional than adults, because they have little ability to adapt and that's why an emotional reaction takes place.

Frustration varies, both in psychological content and in duration.

Mental conditions can act as brief outbreaks of aggression, as well as depressive reactions of affective type, expressed in a negative mood.

Frustration is also characterized by mental states that are typical for a person, as well as atypical with the addition of new character traits, and occasional frustrations are possible.

For example, aggression is typical for an unrestrained person, and depression is peculiar to an insecure person. But aggression can develop in a reserved, peaceful person, after a frustration.

A special place in the study of frustration requires giving to the state of anxiety, rigidity, anxiety and the appearance of a barrier. So, when fatigued, the person most acutely feels frustration and is less committed to tolerance than when the state is at rest

Overcoming frustration

Overcoming the state of frustration is accomplished by the gradual transition from the state of rational analysis to vigorous action to achieve the goal. For the success of overcoming frustration, suggestion, self-suggestion of self-confidence and self-confidence is recommended.

self-confidence is a logically grounded influence directed at oneself, taking into account knowledge of the laws of nature, as well as society.

Autodetecting is a verbal or internal way of influencing a person based on faith, as well as trust in the received source, in which truth is accepted without proof. Thanks to the means of self-regulation, it is possible to control the processes of regulation of the metabolism, and the yogic achievements can be an example. In sports, such psychic self-regulation is used: psycho-regulating and autogenic training, psychomys- chic or ideomotor training.

If a person is not able to cope with frustration, then a reassessment of the situation and a review of previous actions are recommended. After that, a person develops either new ways to achieve the goal, or a new goal is adopted. This kind of frustration is considered constructive

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