Motivation And Emotion — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question

Frustration occurs when an anticipated desirable goal is not attained and the motive is blocked. It results in a variety of behavioural and emotional reactions, which include aggressive behaviour, fixation, escape, avoidance and crying. The frustration-aggression hypothesis, proposed by Dollard and Miller, states that frustration produces aggression. Aggressive acts are often directed towards the self or blocking agent, or a substitute Direct aggressive acts may be inhibited by the threat of punishment.The main sources of frustration are found in:

1. Environmental forces, which could be physical objects, constraining situations or even other people who prevent a person from reaching a particular goal.
2. Personal factors like inadequacies or lack of resources that make it difficult or impossible to reach goals.
3. Conflicts between different motives.