ABSTRACT
The fundamental belief of all individual psychological theories is that people are either created or influenced in such a way as to be affected by the environment and the relations around them. As individuals either strive or react to the world around them, they construct beliefs about who they are as individuals and how they should react to the world around them. This makes an individual’s psychology subjective in nature, in that people who experience similar situations and backgrounds may develop very different ideas concerning themselves and their interactions. No matter what these constructions are, however, they serve as the basis from which the individual begins to be motivated by either aggression or ambivalence to strive for recognition, love, power, pleasure, or mastery (Boszormenyi-Nagy & Krasner, 1986).
