Anger can be defined in a multitude of ways, as well as seen in a variety of different perspectives. Anger can most commonly be defined as a feeling of tension and hostility that may have been caused by anxiety due to unwanted actions from someone or something that is received to be offensive, threatening, or against one’s beliefs. (1) Witnessing this emotion typically leads to an emotional reaction that can be seen as extreme rage, displeasure, and hostility. This is caused because when one is angry, you instantly feel the urge to retaliate back. It is very commonly believed that anger has emerged from people that we do not commonly associate ourselves with a person on a personal level. This could be your boss, or an acquaintance you may have, …show more content…
When one is angry, problems regarding ones physical and mental health may come into play. Although it has these negative attributes, it is not something that one can avoid. Angry is a natural emotion that everyone feels. Learning to control your anger is a very important factor that helps to distinguish between good anger and bad anger. In multiple studies, it has been shown that anger has the ability to increase the risks of one having a heart attack. In a study at Harvard Medical School, students came to the conclusion that people who dealt with being angrier, were 3 times more likely to suffer from a heart attack than those that are able to control their anger in a more positive way. (5) Often times you hear people refer to being so angry that their blood is boiling. This is not just a phrase, being so angry does have the ability to allow your blood boil. When researching the psychology behind anger, you often hear about the ‘fight or flight response’. This is the reaction that occurs in response to an event that was seen as harmful, an attack, or a threat to one’s survival. (6) This helps to show the way that people choose to negatively react when dealing with anger. When one is so angry, the anger that is being built up has the ability to lead to increased adrenaline and cortisol. This is extremely important to the health of humans because it is what pumps our heart rate. This can lead to increased blood pressure, which leads to your blood vessels being constricted. (5) It is shown in multiple ways that anger affects your health in a multitude of ways. Another way anger can strongly affect your health is mentally. Anger can strongly impair your judgement. When someone is angry, your cognitive skills become impaired. When you are angry, you are not thinking about everything that you may be thinking about when you are not angry. Your mind is simply
Typically triggered by an emotional hurt, anger is usually experienced as an unpleasant feeling that occurs when one thinks of having been injured, mistreated, opposed in the long-held views, or when faced with obstacles that keep one from attaining personal goals. Anger is a natural and mostly automatic response to pain of one form or another (physical or emotional). Anger can occur when people don’t feel well, feel rejected, feel threatened, or experience some loss. The type of pain does not matter; the important thing is that the pain experienced is unpleasant (Mills,
Some methods may be similar to others, and some methods may be completely unorthodox. One might use the ten-count method as I had mentioned earlier in coping with anger. This allows the individual to take a breath and re-evaluate the situation at a slower and more understanding rate. Exercise is also a great method in coping with anger. It allows the person to take out their frustrations through vigorous activity. This method harms no one and keeps the body fit. Talking out the problem with someone can also relieve some of the confusion and anger. This can give the individual a better understanding of the problem and maybe allow them to fix the dilemma. Each and every one of these methods can help cope with anger by allowing the individual to think using their mammalian part of the brain, rather than simply responding with instinctive
If anger were a disease, there would be an epidemic in this country. Road Rage, spousal and child abuse, and a lack of civility are just a few examples. Emotionally mature people know how to control their thoughts and behaviors how to resolve conflict. Conflict is an inevitable art of school and work, but it can be resolved in a positive way.
Anger is a signal …. It may be a message that we are being hurt, that our rights are being violated; that our needs or wants are not being adequately met or simply that something is not right ( 1).
These states might be unpleasant at times, but sadness and anger can actually have a beneficial role in human development. Sad emotions, anger issues, and guilt sometimes can bring some cases of positive outcomes. David states in his article that there is good news about the value of bad moods such as, “Helping [one] form arguments...improving [one’s] memory...encourage perseverance...up [his or her] generosity...and [boosting one's] ability to reason”(126). Being upset can help with forming arguments because one is more aware of making
and pleasure, the body changes into a relaxed state. When an individual is angry different
Anger is something that everyone has. It is a natural response to threats and it can sometimes be necessary to survive. However, when handled improperly, anger can be a very destructive emotion. Letting anger take control of a person can make them very violent, aggressive, and unreasonable
According to Kirby Deater and Deckard in their article “Anger”, anger is a complex psychological behaviour which has its own structure. Some researchers believe in that anger is an overwhelming emotion that has effects on man's personality, as well as it indicates the different perspective by which people
Emotion and cognition are intricately intertwined and hard to tell which is influencing us in our everyday lives. While the former are sometimes referred to as feelings and affects (this term would be used interchangeably with emotion in this article) or “hot cognition”, the latter is often thought as our reasoning, or “cold cognition” (Zajonc, 1980). However, it is quite evident from our day-to-day account of events that it’s always the emotional parts of life that catch our attention - especially the bad ones. For one thing, as a general phenomenon, bad news is considered more newsworthy and can easily attract more reader attention (Baumeister,
The research on trait anger yields many different definitions. One of the most common definitions found referred to trait anger as the predisposition to observe several situations as frustrating and experience frequent states of anger. Anger in terms of the emotion itself was defined as “a basic emotion experienced by almost all human beings in response to the unwanted and unexpected behavior of others” (Tafrate, Kassinove, Dundin, 2002, p. 1573). There is a clear consensus that the emotion anger is experienced frequently my most. The difference in trait anger is that it is imbedded in one’s personality and tends to affect the way one views and reacts to the world. It especially affects those high in trait anger. Individuals with high trait anger may feel enraged often and can be sensitive to being treated unfairly. Trait anger can consist of interrelated elements of cynical beliefs and attributions, angry emotional states and aggressive or antagonistic behaviors.
Stress and Anger have always been related with each other. There have been countless studies, even more theories, about stress and anger and how they relate. But, no matter how many studies are conducted, there will always be the questions about whether or not stress and anger are related. But, I am here to provide the facts on both stress and anger, and then allow you, as the reader, to determine the relationship, because all-in-all, I feel that stress and anger can and cant be related, depending on the circumstance.
Anger is an immediate reaction to an obstacle. It is a strong negative emotion of displeasure, hostility or fury that might occur to anyone on any occasion. Anger generates other bad feelings such as fear, disgust, shame, irritability, outrage, hostility and even violence and the aggressive response it generates can harm you. Anger is a punishment to you for somebody's fault.
The ability to experience and express emotions can be a long process. Everyone starts experiencing emotions pretty much from the day of birth; as a person grows up with their family every single day they become more experienced and have more emotions that can help create and form their lifestyle. The decisions a person makes is always influenced by the emotions they have at the current time and the emotions they have experienced before. Experiencing emotions are easier than expressing them. Emotions may be easier to express at a younger age, but as anyone grows older it becomes more difficult. Both experiencing and expressing emotions are different for everyone. The ability to express emotions can be influenced by a person 's culture, personality,
Emotions and feelings are some of the driving forces in our lives and essentially control our reactions, ideas, and choices. Emotions allow us to form connections with others, make decisions about the world around us, and provide us with the motivation to accomplish various tasks. However, emotions generally come with a lot of confusion and variability due to how differently people utilize and deal with them. One common emotion I feel that all people deal with, and handle differently is anxiety. Anxiety can be an extreme motivator, or the complete opposite, depending on how a person reacts to the feeling. Overall, anxiety is a complex emotion that, in extremes, can disrupt a person’s daily life, or more commonly, make a person feel upset
This can either be a positive or negative thing and how you act on it, or do not act, can show how in control and effective you are with your feelings. According to the text, “just because you feel a certain way does not mean you have to act on it” and that “people who act out angry feelings actually feel worse than those who experience anger without lashing out” (Adler, Rosenfeld, Proctor II, year?). Even though acting on your feelings may seem uncontrollable, it is important to deal with them in a different and more productive way. Recognizing how you feel and using the right approach during a constructive conversation is always better than quickly lashing out without completely understanding the situation or how you feel besides angry. Furthermore, “recognizing the difference between feeling and acting can liberate you from the fear that getting in touch with certain emotions will commit you to a course of action” (Adler, Rosenfeld, Proctor II, year?). Understanding your emotions is important so that you will be able to experience feelings that may upset you and still be able to deal with them from a positive standpoint. Once you can separate your feelings from actions you will be able to make more rational