Personality Develpoment: The Jonah Complex

UNIT 9 PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT DISCUSSION
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In today’s life, many people are living their lives below their full potential fearing facing challenges in the new level of life. This is a growth inhibitor condition that was identified by Abraham Maslow as Jonah Complex (Goud, 1994). Maslow, suggests most people fear their highest and best capabilities just as they would fear their lowest and worst. He described Jonah Complex as a condition that exists in human beings to hinder them from achieving their desire for greatness (Goud, 1994). Further, Maslow mentions that when an idea of self-growth is triggered, they are at first very receptive to it. However, after a while, they begin to doubt and counterattack the idea thinking of the shortcomings they have. Maslow called this feeling Jonah’s Complex fears.
Making the choice of growth in life is encountered by fear of failure which relates to Jonah Complex. The impostor phenomenon affects certain highly qualified individuals who have accomplished a great deal based on traits rather than abilities. In other circumstances,...