Conflicts in Psychology Conflict can be defined as a negative emotional state caused by having to choose between two or more incompatible goals or impulses. Conflict can be a major factor for the cause of stress. It depends on the complexity of the conflict itself to determine how much stress it has produced, but there is a lot more to it. There are three different types of conflicts that are all very different. These forms …
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…most can overcome the stress put on by this conflict. A person may feel more stress on a specific occasion if the conflict still exists or if the decision was more significant. Approach-approach conflict seems to be the easiest of the three, and avoidance-avoidance conflict seems to be the hardest. Approach-avoidance conflict is in between the two. It is neither fully positive nor negative and, for the most part, it tends to present a happy-medium.