Lei Wen divided motivation conflicts into four basic types according to avoidance behavior:
(1) Two-way conflict means that two goals attract individuals at the same time, forming two motives with the same intensity. Due to the limitation of conditions, only one goal can be selected, and at this time, individuals often show ambivalence that is difficult to choose, which is the double-trend conflict. "You can't have your cake and eat it" is a true portrayal of the conflict between the two sides.
(2) Avoidance-Avoidance of conflict refers to two kinds of goals that threaten individuals at the same time, which makes individuals have escape motives for these two goals, but due to the limitations of conditions and environment, they can only choose one of them. The psychological conflict in this choice is called avoidance-avoidance conflict. "There is a great river in front, followed by pursuers" is exactly the performance of this situation.
(3) Avoiding conflict means that when something is both beneficial and harmful to individuals, people will have two kinds of motivation attitudes: on the one hand, it is good to strive for it, and on the other hand, it is evil to stay away. The so-called "I want to eat fish but I'm afraid of fishbone" is the expression of this conflict. Motivation conflict will cause individual unbalanced and uncoordinated psychological state, and serious psychological conflict or long duration will cause individual psychological obstacles, so we should pay more attention to beauty seekers.
(4) Multiple avoidance. In real life, people's avoidance conflicts are often manifested in more complicated forms, that is, people face two or more goals, and each goal has two functions of attraction and repulsion. People can't simply choose one goal and avoid or reject another. They must make multiple choices. The resulting conflict is called multiple avoidance conflict.