According to the survey, 24 percent of people don’t take the same elevator when it comes to their boss.
60.3 percent feel uncomfortable riding in an elevator with their boss.
It’s a mental fear of authority.
Elevator awkwardness may be psychological, but being able to communicate effectively with your boss is key to workplace management.
Many people use elevators every day.
However, this small space can also bring hidden pressure: many people climb into the corner of the elevator, or stare at the elevator floor, thinking “hurry up, hurry up.”
There are three possible reasons for this.
First, the elevator passengers too many people are like this.
Three or four square meters of elevator, a dozen people under the fortress, people’s safe territory fell.
American behaviorist Julie Fast found that when the distance with strangers is less than 60 centimeters, people will consciously want to farther away from others, such as hiding in a corner, try to stand up straight, so as not to encounter others.
A survey of more than 9,000 professionals by recruitment website Zhaopin.com found that 24 percent would not take the same elevator when it comes to their boss.
60.3 percent feel uncomfortable riding in an elevator with their boss.
It’s a mental fear of authority.
Such people may have grown up with strict parents and fear authority figures.
In elevators and meetings, they try to bend their heads and curl up, hoping to narrow their goals and avoid the attention of their bosses.
Three, fear of closed narrow space, psychiatry called “claustrophobia” they will be inexplicably afraid to enter the elevator, too worried about the elevator suddenly out of order, at the same time, there will be a rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, red sweating, limb trembling and other manifestations.
Patients often try to avoid taking the elevator, or with fear to endure, suffering.
How to treat these three situations correctly?
If people are not willing to contact with strangers, it is a coordinated emotion between people and the external environment. It is a normal defense response, which has the significance of improving individual alertness and reducing risk, and does not need to be corrected deliberately.
If you are afraid of your boss, you can’t just avoid it.
It is necessary to show politeness. A smile to say hello and goodbye when you get off the elevator will make you feel much better than keeping your head down.
If it is because of the fear of enclosed space dare not enter the elevator, it may be a mental disease.
The reason may have something to do with having similar mental trauma in childhood.
For example, being locked in a small room as a child, or experiencing isolation or abandonment.
Such a situation needs systematic psychological treatment conditioning.
