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Eysenck's Two Major Types Of Anxiety

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I believe I have experienced anxiety from a young age. My mother once told me when I was child I had a fear or buttons and zippers. As weird as this sounds, I had fear of anything I did not have control over. I wanted to make sure that I determined every outcome and the one thing with buttons and zippers was that I just did not know they were reliable and secure enough for me. I think this characteristic can be analyzed through a biological approach specifically on the high end of neuroticism on Eysenck’s two major personality dimension. I think everybody has the ability to carry some type of anxiety as a child and I think that’s why I displayed it at such a young age. Genetics come into factor along with the environment that I was placed into. I …show more content…

I feel that I want an explanation for everything and when I do not have that it brings me anxiety. If I can not predict certain outcomes or explain why things happen I feel this type of stress come about me. I can see certain traumatic events that have happened to me in my life that I have not made complete sense of as well. George Kelly wrote, “Anxiety is the heart of most psychological problems” (Burger, 2015, p. 414). I think my personal constructs fail to make sense of events. In comparison to these other traits I also think that my anxiety is a behavioral and learned trait. When I was younger I was put into sports at a young age and I think this brought about anxiety. My parents expected a lot of me and when I didn’t accomplish what they wanted for me I was punished or looked down upon. So as I grew up I had shaped this mentality that I had to be perfect and when I failed to do so I knew my parents would be upset. Overtime I learned to not expect certain emotions or reactions from my parents unless I met their expectations. Lastly, I can view anxiety through a humanistic approach. One component of the humanistic approach is existential

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