Makale Özeti: The Inferiority Reaction

This article is about adjustment processes for inferiority reaction.
When an individual has negative attitude by others, the individual can have fear of
being a part of society, and have a feeling of inferiority. Because others’ attitudes towards him will be hostility, derision, and indifference. When the individual has inferiority feelings, most of time he can react with fear to social situations. This is called “inferiority reaction”.Individual with inferiority feelings cannot tolerate these inferior feelings, so they need to compensate this by achieving something. Compensation is an adjustment process. It is a defense reaction which help reducing fear to social situations and becoming a relatively stableperson. And it plays important role for adjustment of inferiority reaction.

In this article we have five types of adjustment which are adequate adjustment,
adjustment by the acquisition of peculiar abilities, adjustment through mere ationalization, adjustment through functional ailments, adjustment through flight from reality observed.

Adequate Adjustment

Adequate adjustment is being able to find something compensate an individual’s
inferiority feelings until he become able to have and maintain normal social life and contact.

He has to become master of something, or he has to see that he can accomplish something well enough to go on his social life better than before.Adjustment by the Acquisition of Peculiar Abilities
With this adjustment type, individual choose a simple activity for himself/herself to be excell of this. And then the individual tries making his effort rational about how crucial activity it is, so that not everyone cannot do this without exceptional endowment.

Adjustment through Mere Rationalization

Delusional thinking such as ideas of persecution, and personal grandeur are playing
role in this adjustment. And these can decrease intensity of an inferiority feeling. It is a paranoidal adjustment. For example, a man who cannot work at somewhere for long term because of his low intelligence can think that he is victim of his last boss so that, that last boss is still trying to do wrong to him by effecting people around him in his work environment.

Adjustment Through Functional Ailments

An individual who has fear of social interaction can have some health problems such
as headache and nausea, when its needed to be in any social environment such as party, formal affairs. When the individual finds something as an real excuse for not participating in a social context, the individual can avoid feeling of inferiority.

Adjustment Through Flight From Reality Observed According to this type of adjustment, people with dementia precox catatonia resist external world because they cannot be satisfied by their lives, so that they find a dream life for themselves. And this can be explained an inferior reaction.
Makaleyi özetleyen: Şeyda Varol

Reference

English Bagby, Yale University, New Haven, CT, US. (1923). The Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Social Psychology. 18(3), 269-273.