Adler's Concept Of Superiority Case Study

Adler’s concept of superiority striving is also demonstrated here after viewing her grades from first year as demoralizing. A bit of an inferiority complex seems to have developed thoughout the semesters, due to her feeling incompetent and sometimes is exaggerated so that she thinks it’s almost impossible for her to achieve anything. Freud’s perspective might see this instead as a defense mechanism of sublimation. Turning negative urges into socially acceptable motivations. Even as her heart feels heavy and she feels inadequate, she turns this into motivations to do better and energy to work more. For example, after a midterm the normal college student might go and relax a little, but she’ll probably overanalyze it and think about the number of possible questions she got wrong and instead of letting herself rest, she’ll immediately start working on an assignment or essay or studying for another midterm and even ignore eating because she won’t feel like she deserves rest or relaxation. Pavlov however, might argue that these are behavioural patterns as a result of conditioning. As she college student she has learned to associate midterms and grades with negativity and demoralizing thoughts. However, Kurt Lewin could argue that these behaviours are field dependent, only occurring at certain times in certain

Sometimes it seems like she’s just waiting to blame herself when something goes wrong or something negative happens. She lacks self-efficacy sometimes and views the world in a realistic and limited perspective. As Bandura notes, beliefs of self-efficacy can be influential in how an individual thinks, either pessimistically or optimistically. They also influence decisions and challenges that an individual selects due to their belief in their chances of success or failure and whether failures are motivating or