Exploring Psychology in Everyday Life: Theories and Interventions

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of psychology in everyday life, examining how psychological principles shape our behaviors, decisions, and overall well-being. The study explores various aspects of everyday life, including health, decision-making processes, motivation, and financial choices, highlighting how psychological factors influence these areas. A significant portion of the report is dedicated to the pervasive issue of anxiety, its detrimental effects on individuals, and its prevalence in contemporary society. The report also presents an overview of the cognitive and psychodynamic theories, which offer insights into the underlying mechanisms of anxiety. Furthermore, the report outlines several interventions for managing and overcoming anxiety, such as counseling, exercise, meditation, and dietary adjustments. The report underscores the importance of understanding the intricate interplay between psychology and daily experiences to promote healthier and more fulfilling lives.

PSYCHOLOGY IN EVERYDAY LIFE
The contemporary research topic in psychology which have
been included in this study is Psychology in Everyday life.
Psychology is science of behaviour and mind. All the
individuals are different from others and the reason behind
this is that their psychology is different. This study includes
psychology that individual use in everyday life and which
affect everyday decision of life of individual. This have
become a very important topic of research that what are the
psychological factors that affect decisions of individuals in
their everyday life. The purpose of researching this topic is
to find what are the factors that affect happiness and healthy
living of individuals in their daily life.
Anxiety in everyday life Overview of anxiety
• Anxiety is one of the major issue which has affected the
lives of large number of people. Anxiety is basically the
condition in which people undergoes a great stress as
well as depression and thus affects their overall mental
health. In short, it is the natural response to the stress
and thus affects the mental health of people to a great
extent. It is feeling of the fear as well as apprehension
and surrounds the people of every age. The major
symptoms of anxiety are increased heart rate, rapid
breathing, restlessness etc. Anxiety is mainly determined
by the feeling of unpleasant and thus affects the overall
psychology. Although anxiety is considered as normal as
well as healthy emotion but when people often and
regularly feels some sense of anxiety then this is
considered as the medical disorder. Anxiety is generally
regarded as one of the contemporary issue in psychology
as people have been under great stress and anxiety from
the ancient times. This is one of the most important
concerns across the whole world which has seriously
affected the daily life of people. This has been a major
issue and concern because this is the serious condition
which deeply affects the learning ability and mental
conditions of children. This condition usually alter the
way in which people processes their emotion s as well as
behaviour and thus results in the serious mental illness.
Another reason that it has become increasingly a great
issue across the world is that it has given rise to high
number of suicides as well as deaths. It is mainly
considered as the common group of the mental illness
which is mainly characterized by the feeling of tension,
physical changes and mental changes. It basically causes
distress and has become a serious medical condition
which covers a range of harmful triggers. This primarily
affects the everyday life of people and therefore even
sometimes leads to death of people.
This anxiety has become a great stimulating factor which is affecting
the everyday life of people. The various forms of the anxiety has
affected the everyday life of people There are various ways in which the
anxiety has surrounded people in a negative way and thus most of them
have become a prey of this disorder. One of the major impact of anxiety
is one the digestive system of people. It has been found that when
people are under the greatest stress as well as anxiety then this results in
the release of a chemical in stomach and thus eventually results in
various digestive problems like nausea, diarrhea etc. Not only has this,
but the effect of anxiety also extended to the hindrance in the social
relationship. Due to the stress and anxiety, people often become
frustrated and violent and thus react spontaneously to every situation.
This often leads to the bad relation with their loved ones. It basically
limits the ability of people to share things with their closed ones and
results in social distancing. Besides this, the anxiety has also given rise
to high number of suicides in UK. According to the report of 2013,
around 8.2 million of the cases were recorded of the anxiety in UK.
Besides this, In the England women were diagnosed with anxiety twice
as the number of male. In the following year of 2016, around 6233 cases
of the suicides were being reported in UK where most of the people
were between the age 15 to 40. Out of these, nearly 78% were mainly
the males and rest 22% were females. In London, according to the
report of 2018 more than 76.4% of the children between the age group
of 15 to 25 were diagnosed with anxiety and among them around
54.3% children committed suicide. Thus, this growing rates and pace of
anxiety have affected the everyday life of people and thus more than
half of the population of UK has become the prey of this disorder.
INTRODUCTION
Everyday Behaviour
This report includes knowledge of everyday behaviour. In this everyday behaviour of
individual includes their health, decisions, motivation, Work, Politics and relationships.
All these are everyday behaviour of individuals and all these get affected from the psychology
on individual.
The first everyday behaviour of individual is health. This is most important decision of
individual which affect their happiness and well-being. Psychology of individual affect the
priority individual giveto their health and fitness. It is the difference of psychology that one
person is active in physical activity for health and fitness and other is not. Health is important
as physical fitness is required for psychological fitness.
Many unhealthy behaviour of individual are result of psychological disorder this includes
results like binge eating and anorexia. This may not affect everyone but it is important that
people understand psychology behind this so that such health related issues can be resolved.
Other aspect of everyday psychology includes making decisions and making decisions require
a lot of mental exercise. Individuals can make better decision when theyare able to understand
psychological processing behind every decision. There are six psychological point of view
whihc individual use to make everyday life decision these are, Emotional, Rational, positive,
Negative, Intuitive, and Creative. All these are psychological factors.
Motivation is another psychology behaviour. Motivation is affected by psychological aspect of
individual and this is a everyday behaviour. For this first step is setting goals and making plan
for success. Motivation is a complete psychological process this helps persuade individuals to
achieve objectives set by them and follow plans to achieve that objectives. The decision
making for setting goals is very important and this is basic and everyday life occurrence and
require basic level of psychological thinking. This requires that individual making basic life
choices have healthy brain which can lead to healthy choices.
All the everyday activities require some or more psychological attention and motivation.
Otherwise it will become really difficult for individuals to complete these daily task.
Psychological factor includes making individual understand the value of each and every task
and how individuals should be doing all the tasks.
Finance is very important concern of all the individuals and a part of their daily activities what
preference individual give to finance and financial well being depends on their psychology.
This includes their daily decision and decision related to saving and spending.

The theories of psychology
There are various underlying theories in psychology which basically aims to provide
the in-depth information of the relation between psychology and the behaviour of
human beings. One of the most important and significant theory in psychology
which explains how the behaviour of the people are great influenced by their though
process is cognitive theory. The cognitive theory is mainly based on the assumption
that thoughts are primary determinants of the emotions as well as behaviour.
According to this theory, though process of the human beings is one of the major
determinant that greatly influences their behaviour. This theory has tried to explain
that anxiety is tendency mostly to overestimate potential for the danger. People who
are suffering from anxiety ten to imagine worst possible situation as well as avoid
the scenario which they realize are highly dangerous like crowds, social interaction
etc. This theory has played a great role in explaining the overall incidence of
anxiety. As per this theory, the dysfunctional thoughts of people results in the
extreme conditions. These conditions basically results in the maladaptive behaviour
and thus leads to high level of anxiety within them.
Another major theory in psychology which clearly depicts the effects of
anxiety in everyday life of people is the psychodynamic theory. This theory has
basically explained and described anxiety as the conflict and dispute between id as
well as ego. The aggressive as well as impulsive drivers might be experienced
leading to the repression. These repressed drives later on might break through the
repression and thus resulting in the automatic anxiety. The psychodynamic theory
mainly describes the social anxiety as one of the biggest and large problem which
usually develops during the childhood. The followers of this theory basically views
anxiety as the childhood disorder and are not the immediate result of adulthood.
According to this theory, the social anxiety mainly results within people due to early
experiences as well as attachments to the caregivers. This approach predominately
stresses that the human behaviour is largely determined by the intrapsychical
impulses, motives, desires as well as conflicts.
Interventions for overcoming
anxiety
• The anxiety has become one of the serious concern across the
world thus it becomes highly essential to take some necessary
steps in order to reduce it.
• Counseling
• This is considered as one of the major intervention which can be
taken in order to provide relief from the anxiety. This counseling
is mainly given through an effective therapy which is cognitive
behavioural therapy. This therapy majorly focuses upon changing
patterns of the thinking as well as beliefs which triggers the
anxiety. The cognitive strategies primarily involves self-talks,
attention training etc. This therapy mainly works through
changing the attitude of people as well as their behaviour by
emphasizing upon thoughts, images and attitudes.
• Exercise and meditation
• This is the another most effective strategy and intervention for
treating anxiety. Exercise majorly burns up the stress chemicals as
well as promotes relaxation. The physical activity and meditation
is a great way for managing anxiety as it helps to bring positive
vibes within mind and provides the relief. In short, mindfulness
meditation is generally considered as the antidote for anxiety. It
eventually changes mechanism of brain and helps to create
positive body sensation which results in relaxation of mind.
• Dietary requirements
• It has been found that the diet and food which people take also
contribute indirectly to high level of anxiety. Mineral magnesium
basically helps to relax the muscle tissue while magnesium
deficient diet contributes to the anxiety. Thus, in order to
overcome stress and depression diet of people should contain the
food items which are rich in magnesium like green leafy
vegetables, cereals etc. Along with this, the diet should also
consist of the food items which are rich in calcium as well as
vitamin B like low-fat dairy products.
CONCLUSION
It has been summarized that anxiety has
become one of the major global issue
which has affected the everyday life of
people. This is one of the contemporary
issue in psychology which has affected
the lives of people to a great extent.
Anxiety has given rise to large number
of problems in the daily life of people
like digestive problems and most
importantly suicide. It has been found
that the major cases of suicide are due to
high level of anxiety in people and
children. The shocking aspect of this
anxiety is that it occurs in people of
almost of every age. There are various
interventions for overcoming anxiety
like therapies, exercise etc.
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