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KembaraXtra-Psychology - avoidance–avoidance conflict
Avoidance–avoidance conflict occurs when a person faces two or more roughly equal threats and must choose among them. Lewin’s conflict framework (identified in 1931 though not named by him then) treats this conflict as often stable and hard to resolve, because moving toward one threat increases motivation to withdraw toward the other; anxiety is minimized at a point maximally distant from both. It is linked with double binds and contrasts with approach–approach and approach–avoidance conflicts.
Avoidance–avoidance conflict occurs when a person faces two or more roughly equal threats and must choose among them. Lewin’s conflict framework (identified in 1931 though not named by him then) treats this conflict as often stable and hard to resolve, because moving toward one threat increases motivation to withdraw toward the other; anxiety is minimized at a point maximally distant from both. It is linked with double binds and contrasts with approach–approach and approach–avoidance conflicts.
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