What Causes Anger

What Causes Anger?

What Causes Anger?

Events which occur either within or outside ourselves may trigger an outburst of anger. In our example above, the anger we and others may have experienced was caused by an external event - a traffic jam. An internal trigger of anger could be a personal problem which we find hard to resolve. Or perhaps you were brooding over past events which had caused you to become angry before. External and internal events may occur in combination, thus making it harder to control our anger. According to the cognitive behavior theory, anger may also be partly caused by behavior taught by other people, genetic predilections, and the absence of the capacity to solve problems.

There are two factors at play here: people who tend towards anger may have an irrational view of reality (meaning, they think the world has to see things their way) and a low level of frustration (meaning, they either have to get what they want or nothing at all.) Angry people more often than not believe their response was caused by a person or event - it is rare for them to acknowledge that they became angry due to their irrational view of reality. This means that angry people perceive the world a certain way, with definite expectations of reality - when the reality of the real world kicks in and it does not match their perception and expectations, then they resort to anger.

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