Conflict is a Painful Condition or state of an individual. Types of Conflicts:Approach-Approach Conflict: The conflict is between two positive valences two equally attractive choices in strength. A child may have to choose between reading an interesting book and preparing a project. There little danger in this type of conflict. 2. Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict: It is just like being caught between the devil and the deep sea. Conflict of this type is evoked by two negative valences. Both tendencies are to retreat from or to avoid something For example, a child who does not want to study and at the same time does not want to displease his parents by not studying, may experience some conflict Usually conflicts of this type are more serious than Approach-Approach type conflict. Approach-Avoidance Conflicts: In this type of conflict, approaching and avoidance tendencies are evoked simultaneously For example, a child wants to play cricket but is afraid of being hurt An adolescent belonging to an orthodox family is invited by a girl. He looks upon such an invitation with anxiety. On the other hand, he does not wish to look old-fashioned and backward in the eyes of his friends and is also of his parents. The first attracts him and the second frightens him. This type of conflict is most difficult to solve. Approach-avoidance conflict often leads to inferior adjustment or unreduced anxiety. Definitions of conflicts:Douglas, O.B. and Holland, B.F. “Conflict means a painful emotional state which results From a tension between opposed and contradictory wishes.” Lewin, Kurt “ Conflict is usually a clash of motives” Katz, Barney and Lehner, G.F. “Psychological conflict is a state of tension brought by the presence in the individual of two or more opposing desires.” From above conclude that conflict is a painful condition or state of an individual. During this state, an individual feels intense emotional tension.Emotional tension results on account of the presense of two or more desires of the individual. These desires are contradictory in nature and it is not possible to satisfy these fully simultaneously. The individual who is not able to choose between these opposing two desires becomes a victim of conflict. Kurt Lewin states that conflict arises as a result of interaction between the individual and his environment. Behaviour tendencies are represented by vectors which show the direction and strength of the individual's striving.Most of the impulses can be described as diected towards or away from an event in the environment. This is described in terms of valences of which positive (+) valences are tendencies to approach and negative(-) are tendencies to withdraw and avoid. Valences and vectors are both field phenomenon and can be defined only in terms of both the character of the person and the forces of the environment acting on him. Common sources of conflicts Family, Gender, School Conflicts Family: This includes (i) Underprotection(ii) Inferiority feel.

1. CONFLICTS AND ITS TYPES

3. DEFINITIONS OF A CONFLICT
 Douglas, O.B. and Holland, B.F. “Conflict means a
painful emotional state which results From a tension
between opposed and contradictory wishes.”
 Lewin, Kurt “ Conflict is usually a clash of motives”
 Katz, Barney and Lehner, G.F. “Psychological conflict is
a state of tension brought by the presence in the
individual of two or more opposing desires.”

4. TYPES OF CONFLICTS
1-Approach-Approach Conflict: The conflict is between two
positive valences two equally attractive choices in strength. A child may have to
choose between reading an interesting book and preparing a project. There little
danger in this type of conflict.
2. Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict: It is just like being caught
between the devil and the deep sea. Conflict of this type is evoked by two negative
valences. Both tendencies are to retreat from or to avoid something For example, a
child who does not want to study and at the same time does not want to displease
his parents by not studying, may experience some conflict Usually conflicts of this
type are more serious than Approach-Approach type conflict.

5. TYPES OF CONFLICTS
3. Approach-Avoidance Conflicts: In this type of conflict, approaching and
avoidance tendencies are evoked simultaneously For example, a child wants to
play cricket but is afraid of being hurt An adolescent belonging to an
orthodox family is invited by a girl. He looks upon such an invitation with
anxiety. On the other hand, he does not wish to look old-fashioned and
backward in the eyes of his friends and is also of his parents. The first attracts
him and the second frightens him. This type of conflict is most difficult to
solve.
Approach-avoidance conflict often leads to inferior adjustment or unreduced
anxiety.

6. REFERENCES
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