Anger, often considered a harmful and detrimental emotion, has the potential to wreak havoc on both personal and work life. This intense emotion, if left unchecked, can give rise to a cascade of negative feelings and undesirable behaviors, creating a toxic environment for oneself and those around you. The repercussions of unbridled anger extend beyond the immediate moment of frustration, impacting relationships, mental well-being, and overall productivity. Understanding the roots of anger and its destructive tendencies is crucial for individuals to mitigate its adverse effects and foster healthier emotional responses in both personal and professional spheres.
Tag: Attitude: content, structure, function; its influence and relation with thought and behaviour; moral and political attitudes; social influence and persuasion.
Decoding the Question:
- In Introduction, try to define anger.
- In Body, elaborate on how anger leads to negative emotions and undesirable behaviours.
- In Conclusion, try to conclude with Plutarch’s View on Anger.
Answer:
Anger can be defined as an ‘emotional state that consists of feelings that vary in intensity, from mild irritation or annoyance to fury and rage’. it is a complex state, involving a multidimensional play of ‘physiological reactions, facial expressions, vocal responses, visual attention, body postures, and a host of behavioral strategies including social exclusion, insults, argumentation, and aggression’.
Anger Leads to Negative Emotions and Undesirable Behaviours:
- Precipitating factors identify a wide range of triggers, including ‘insults, cost imposition, inattention, anger from another, insufficient reciprocity, insufficient praise, another’s ignorance of someone’s achievements, and so on’ leading to the negative emotion of anger.
- The outcome of anger is the harsh words that affect the other person deeply.
- At the interpersonal level, anger has been implicated in team conflict, interpersonal revenge, and blame.
- At the organizational level, excessive anger expression has been linked to harmful organizational climates, decreased job satisfaction, increased organizational incivility and, at the extreme, aggression and violence.
- Anger appropriately mediated by reason is a virtue. The other that is transcending anger in an act of love is a virtue.
Plutarch, a great Roman writer mentions that that anger is like a disease, and extreme or abiding anger such as rage or bitterness is an unnatural dispositional state. Such instances highlight the need for temperance or self-control.
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