Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of
the Study
Of all
the four letter words there are, people despise none more than the word fear.
That single word has been the root cause of more failed people than any other
word. Perhaps the thing people fear most is failure, because it leads to
poverty, which is their real fear. Fear is apparently a universal emotion;
all persons, consciously or unconsciously, have fear in some sort.
Fear is
without doubt one of the most common moods and emotions human experience. It
is by blind habit considered one of the “bad” emotions. Fear lives in the
neighborhood of anxiety and worry and keeps company with anger, greed, and
jealousy. It is rare to find anyone who embraces fear or sees it as a
valuable emotion.
According
to Michael J. Formica, “Fear is manifested as
our everyday anxieties where we find ourselves living in the regret of the
past, or grasping at the future. Fear
is more of an illusion than a reality, the probability of gaining control over
it or other debilitating emotion is very high”. Fear is like any other emotion, there are both
positive and negative aspects. Negative fear is debilitating. Positive fear is
exhilarating.
Fear is
an unpleasant feeling of perceived risk or danger, whether it be real
or imagined. Fear also can be described as a feeling of extreme dislike towards
certain conditions, objects or situations such as: fear of darkness, fear of
ghosts, etc. Fear may underlie some phenomena of behavior modification,
although these phenomena can be explained without adducing fear as a factor in
them. Furthermore, application of aversive stimuli is also often ineffective introducing change in
the behavior intended to be changed. Humans can become very intimidated by
fear; causing them to go along with one's wishes without caring about their own
input. They can also become equally violent, and can even become deadly; it can
cause an instinctive reaction to rising adrenaline levels rather than a
consciously thought-out decision.
According
to Saberi Roy, A psychology of
fear would distinguish fear as an emotion and fear as a feeling, fear as
conscious and fear as unconscious as well as fear with bodily reactions and
fear without bodily reactions and fear in anxiety and fear in phobias. It would
be important to understand why fear occurs and what are the bodily reactions
when fear is a strong conscious emotion and how this differs from fear as a
feeling which may not have bodily reactions and could be conscious but would
more likely would be unconscious.
Fear is
an internal condition that is caused by a real or perceived threat of disaster.
From the point of view of psychology, fear is negatively colored
emotional process. In the Theory of Differential Emotions by K. Izard, fear is
attributed to the basic emotion that implies fear to be an innate emotional
process with genetically predetermined physiological component, strictly defined facial
expression and specific subjective experience. The causes of fear can be
real or imaginary danger. Fear mobilizes the body for the implementation of
avoiding behaviors.
According
to Ross L. Talbott, fear can be positive and a negative emotion. Fear is an
interesting attribute that we share with much of creation. In positive way fear
is survival mechanism and motivates people to do their best. On the other hand,
fear can also be a negative emotion, which destroy our future by controlling
peoples. Fear in areas of life can paralyze people into inaction.
Even if
there were a lot of studies done but only few of them can explain well that
fear can be a positive emotion that s why researcher chooses this topic to
clarify the misconception of the people that fear is not a negative emotion but
also a positive emotion and tell them more about fear. Fear is a very serious
emotion. It can be helpful, for assisting people in surviving, or be used to
drive someone mad. It has a lot of benefits to the people who always countered
fear.
Instead
of dealing with the types of fear, this research paper focuses to enhance the
understanding of the readers about fear and what are the benefits people can
get from it.
B. Statement of
the Problem
This study aims to answer this Question:
1. What
is fear and what are the benefits people can get from it?
C. Significance of the Study
College and High school students. This research paper would be able to help students in choosing
their liked and dreamed courses and in their daily basis decision making.
Students will not get scare of doing or making a risky and hard decision in
their life. Students will learn to face the fear and to overcome it. In
addition, Students will learn how to overcome the fear and make it as a best
friend, preparing you for progress.
For people who are always fear to do new things. This study will helps people who are afraid to go out of
their Comfort Zone and people who are scare to present their views or
ideas about the certain topic. Peoples who are stop pursing their dreams
because of the fear of failure. In this paper, these people will learn to
control and to face their fear and lastly, these people will learn to turn it
into a positive feeling.
Readers. The
information presented in this paper may contribute to one's own knowledge about
fears and can be an additional tool to all the readings that the readers may
have done so far. This study will make the readers to be aware of the
benefits that a person can get by fear. Through this research, they will be
able to understand how the fear can help ones to live a better life.
Future Researcher. This
study will adequately help future researchers to make similar studies; since,
there are still lots of concerns regarding the fear that are not discuss in this
research paper due to the time constraint. This study can encourage
future researchers to further study about this subject matter. This research
paper can also be utilized as a source of valuable data and information that is
also based on other researches and studies. Future researchers will benefit
from this study, and it will provide them the facts needed to compare their
study during their respective time and usability.
D. Scope and Delimitation
This
study focuses in the fear and what are the
benefits that people can get from it. Fear is said a powerful and primitive human emotion.
It alerts us to the presence of danger and was critical in keeping our
ancestors alive; but in these times, it is said to be a negative emotion which
break or worse ones future. This study will discuss about why fear is identified
as bad and the benefit that ones can get by fear and lastly how to overcome
fear or turn it into a positive emotion.
Due to time constraints, this study will no longer discuss
the types of fear. Moreover the researcher believes that fear have been
identified by people as a negative feeling. Therefore, this study would most
relevant to the continuing trend. Researcher
think origin of fear lies in the unknown. Be it the darkness, ghosts, weather
calamities or whatever is unknown to the man is feared the most.
E.
Materials and Methods
The research design used in this study is the clarify
misconception in mhich the researcher will explain and elaborate the
misconception of the people about fear. Information relevant to the study was
gathered from various reference materials such as books, electronic articles, and journal
articles. The data collected were used to answer the aforementioned
question aimed by this research paper.
F.
Definition of Terms
Anxiety. A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease
about something with an uncertain outcome.
Aversive stimulus. Any negative
stimulus to which an organism will learn to make a response that avoids it. http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=aversive%20stimulus
Comfort Zone.
A place or situation in
which you feel safe or comfortable, especially when you choose to stay in this
situation, instead of trying to work harder or achieve more.
Constraints. A
limitation or restriction.
Debilitating things.
Things that can stop you from reaching a goal.
Exhilarating. Making one feel very happy, animated, or
elated; thrilling. Causing strong feelings of excitement and happiness.
Illusion. An instance of a wrong or misinterpreted
perception of a sensory experience. In other words, something that looks or
seems different from what it is: something that is false or not real but that
seems to be true or real. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/illusion).
Misconception. A view
or opinion that is incorrect because based on faulty thinking or understanding.
Phenomenon. An occurrence,
circumstance, or fact that is perceptible by the senses.
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