Motivation And Emotion — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question

Frustration occurs when an anticipated desirable goal is not attained and the motive is blocked. This often results in a variety of behavioural and emotional reactions like fixation, escape, avoidance, cries including anger. It is in connection with this that Dollard and Miller proposed this theory of frustration aggression. This theory states that frustration produces aggression which is often directed toward the self or blocking agent or substitute. Direct aggressive acts may be inhibited by the threat of punishment.One could find the main sources of frustration in:

1. Environmental forces: Physiological object, constraining situations or even other people who prevent a passion from reaching a particular goal.
2. Personal factors like inadequacies or lack of resources that make it difficult or impossible to reach goals and Conflict between motives.