Frustration – the word of Latin origin. In modern psychology this term is meant as the state caused by insuperable difficulties (or difficulties which seem insuperable). In certain cases the word is replaced with a synonym – a stress.
The first scientist who became interested in impact of frustration on behavior and mentality of the person was Z. Freud. After his followers continued studying a phenomenon in its connection with aggression. Psychologists note what in a condition of frustration of people can choose one of two ways: escape from reality (dreams, dreams, imaginations) or slopping of negative emotions outside. In the second case the frustration is just shown in the form of irritability or barefaced attacks of anger – that is in more or less expressed aggression forms. Degree of frustration depends on two factors. The first – the relation of the person to the purpose and its importance for it. In other words, unattainability does not play a role if the person does not feel urgent need for success. The second factor – proximity of the person to the purpose. What more efforts were spent before emergence of an absolute obstacle, subjects serious condition of the person by. The phenomenon of frustration includes several components. Frustrator – the cause of a state, that is an obstacle between the person and the purpose. In certain cases in this role the interlocutor of the person trying him acts to suppress or to discompose (for example, gestalt therapists thus provoke aggression at patients that those could direct it to a solution). The Frustratsionny situation – a complex of the events leading to the corresponding state. Frustratsionny reaction – in fact, is also frustration, that is behavior of the person in a stressful state. The frustratsionny tolerance, that is resistance to provocative factors helps to cope with a state. This line is defined by education and self-education of the person and also ability to objectively estimate the events. The positive effect from frustratsionny situations is that the person on personal experience learns to estimate objectively own forces, to choose the feasible purposes and to react to failures with due tranquility.