Question
What is conflict? Discuss different types of conflicts.

Answer

Conflict refers to a state of disturbance or tension resulting from opposing motives, drives, needs, or goals.
  1. Approach-Approach conflict: In this situation a person is involved in more than one positive force fields. e.g. Making choice between two liked dishes, going for sweet or a comic book are common examples.
  2. Approach-Avoidance Conflict: This occurs when the objects have both positive and negative valence. Ambivalent behaviour and oscillation are quite common in such a situation.
  3. Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict: It involves objects with negative valence. The conflict involving two aversive goals represents the situation characterized by the saying "between the devil and the deep sea."
  4. Double Approach Avoidance Conflict: It involves two goals each with negative and positive qualities. We buy things and often different things having positive and negative qualities.

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