Question

Jenna constantly tries to please everyone around her. She believes that she must have the love and approval of all the people who are important to her. Consequently, she works late to finish tasks for her colleagues, constantly runs errands for her friends, and gets overloaded with work because she can never refuse sudden requests from her boss. The most likely reason for Jenna's unnecessary stress is:

Answer 1

Answer:

A) her irrational belief.

Explanation:

The options for this question are missing. The options are:

A) her irrational belief.

B) her faulty cognitive appraisal.

C) an avoid-avoid inner conflict.

D) an approach-avoid inner conflict.

In psychology, the term irrational belief refers to the attitudes, beliefs and values that a person holds despite evidence proving the opposite. Thus, they are beliefs that don't make much logical sense and that, most of the times are a source of stress or anxiety for the person who holds them.

In this example, Jenna constantly tries to please everyone around her. She does this because she thinks that she must have the love and approval of all the people who are important to her. We know that in real life we cannot have the love of all people we care about. However, because she thinks so, she works late and gets overloaded with work because she cannot say no. We can see that this belief that she holds is causing her stress and therefore, this would be an example of irrational belief.