We imagine them in short pants, not having reached the so-called age of reason. However, bad players are not just children in crisis, whose only solution to get out of the discomfort they experience is to send the game board, pawns and dice flying. Adults, they simply manage to better hide their game as well as their annoyance. And in bad faith, they don't care about the winners or the rules, attribute their failure to circumstances, bad luck or others, or hide in silence.
"Over the years, the defense mechanisms are more sophisticated
," smiles Aline Nativel Id Hammou, clinical psychologist and author of
La Charge Mentale des Enfants
(Larousse).
But they have the same goal: to achieve a positive self-image, tainted by defeat.
The bad player does not admit defeat: he reacts.
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It must be said that, from 7 to 77 years old too, it is a real little drama that is played out inside the person who has lost.
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