Frustration Tolerance and positive psychology

1. Asma Jabeen
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Frustration is a
common emotional response to
opposition.
Related to anger and disappointment,
it arises from the perceived resistance
to the fulfillment of
individual will.

3. Definition
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 The level of a person's ability to
withstand frustration without
developing inadequate modes of
response, such as “going to pieces”
emotionally is called as frustration
tolerance.

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Frustration will occur whenever
your actions are producing less
and fewer results than you think
they should

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Inter causes of
frustration
External causes
of frustration

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Low Frustration
Tolerance(LFT)
High Frustration
Tolerance (HFT)

7. Common beliefs that cause LFT
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 I must not be frustrated
 I cannot stand to be inconvenienced
 My life should be easy
 It’s awful when things don’t go my way
 I must be comfortable at all times
 I must not be deprived of what I want
 I can’t stand to do things that are boring or
unpleasant
 I cannot stand to endure poor service, stupidity
and lack of attention

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 An effective way to combat Low Frustration
Tolerance is to dispute the thoughts and beliefs
that underpin it.
 Get a grip; it’s not life or death
 It’s inconvenient but I can cope with it
 Of course I can stand it, it’s really not that bad
 I don’t like it but I can handle it

9. Behavioral Disputing
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Behavioral disputing is a great way
to test whether we really “could not
stand it”, or whether we would really
go mad and our heads explode.

10. Rational Emotive Behavioral
Therapy and Frustration Tolerance
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REBT is one
form of
Cognitive
Behavioral
Therapy (CBT)
and was first
expounded by
Ellis in the mid-
1950s
Albert Ellis who
theorized that
low frustration-tolerance
(LFT)
is an evaluative
component in
dysfunctional
and irrational
beliefs

11. Strategies to Help you Deal with
Low Frustration Tolerance
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Realize It All in Your Head
Expose Yourself
Rate It
Develop Skills

12. Frustration tolerance and school
of thoughts
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 Cognitive perspective
 Social learning
 Behaviorism

13. Researches
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 Maria and Orlow (1974) concluded that Reading
specialist have been concerned with interrelated
problems a) defining the parameters of reading
disability b) Identifying children with difficulty in
reading remediation effort appropriate to the
disability It has been found that children who
have low tolerance for frustration often become
acute reading disability case.

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 Hybel and Stanger (2007) observed Differences
in frustration tolerance among various diagnostic
groups, with normals and schizophrenics showing
"high frustration tolerance" and neurotics,
alcoholics, and psychopaths showing "substantial
disruption.". Frustration tolerance was increased
by therapy.

15. Cont…..
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 Britt and Janus (2007) explained Criteria of
frustration as follows. The frustration process
seems to have aspects of emotion, tension,
conflict, inhibition, aggression, withdrawal, and
the like, which have been examined in terms of
the studies of frustration.