what causes frustration and what are the effects of frustration. how can we as teachers deal with frustration?

2. Frustration is an emotion that occurs in
situations where a person is blocked from
reaching a desired outcome. In general,
whenever we reach one of our goals, we feel
pleased and whenever we are prevented
from reaching our goals, we may succumb to
frustration and feel irritable, annoyed and
angry. Typically, the more important the
goal, the greater the frustration and
resultant anger or loss of confidence.

3.  Frustration may be defined as the emotion
produced when we are blocked from
reaching our goal.
 Some frustrations are minor e.g. busy
signals, traffic slowdowns, late arrivals,
pending assignments to check.
 Students can also be frustrated over exam
pressure, peer pressure and pressure from
parents to perform well in exams.

4. Grades
Deadlines
Expectations
Social
pressure
Peer pressure
Examinations

5.  The signs of frustration are much less
desperate than those of anxiety.
 Facial signs accompany the signals of
frustration.
 These signals are:
Withdrawal, fixation, aggression, regression,
physical dis-orders, apathy, rude behavior,
throwing the hands into the air, tapping the
fingers or feet, disgust or displeasure on the
face.
 More severe the frustration, more dramatic
will be the movements.

6.  Develop-positive
teacher student
relations
 Provide learning aides
 Talk to the student
 Don’t yell at students
 Positive and healthy
environment
 Avoid to give no. of
assignments to complete
 Engage in activities.

7.  When someone is frustrated, the most typical
reaction is anger. This is an emotional reaction
usually directed at the obstacle.
 When the obstacle is too influential to direct anger
at, this anger is frequently redirected to something
less influential.
 As achievement of a specific goal is repeatedly
thwarted, many people gradually succumb to a loss
of confidence.
 A person with no confidence in her ability to
accomplish a goal often creates a self-fulfilling
prophecy by putting less effort into achieving said
goal. She may give up on the goal entirely.

8.  Some people who continue to be frustrated in their
attempts to achieve their goals become depressed.
 Their body goes into fight-or-flight mode when they
can neither fight the pressure nor flee it. Frustration
causes headaches, stomach aches, hypertension,
anxiety, ulcers and even heart attacks.
 Others who are continually frustrated develop
depression, which affects every facet of one's daily
life, or self-destructive habits like drinking and doing
drugs, especially if they are frustrated in a lot of
ways while attempting to obtain various goals.

9. Ask Yourself, “What Is Working in This
Situation?”.
 Keep an Accomplishments Log.
 Focus On What You Want to Happen.
 Remove the “Noise” and Simplify.
 Multiple Solutions.
 Take Action.
 Visualize a Positive Outcome to the
Situation.
 Stay Positive.

10. The most common reactions of
frustration include:
Aggression/Anger
Apathy
Reduce the level of goal
Withdrawal
Compromise

11.  Help them communicate what their
frustration is about.
 Encourage students to describe calmly
what he or she is feeling.
 Guide the students to brainstorm
solutions to the problem.
 Help the students determine whether the
situation is important enough to address
or something he or she could forget
about.
 Give the students achievable targets