영문 리포트 - Cho Seung-Hui`s Motivations

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총기난사사건 조성의 행위 심리에 대한 동기 분석

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April 16, 2007 started out just like any other day in Virginia Tech, but would end up being the day in which the deadliest shooting in modern US history occured. A senior in Virginia Tech, Cho Seung-Hui, shot to death 32 people in cold blood and injured many more before taking his own life. What motivations influenced his behaviors on that day? Even after thorough investigations on Chos childhood, family, and his surroundings, a conclusive motive is yet to be found. Several educated guesses have been made about what his motives may have been, but even to this day there is nothing conclusive. In the midst of such inconclusiveness, our group has tried to answer the above-mentioned question by using several theories and concepts in the field of motivational psychology.
The first and maybe the most obvious internal motive was his need for affiliation. Social needs such as the need for affiliation and intimacy arise in all human beings, and depending on how we deal with such needs, different behaviors will ensue. According to the textbook, "the principal condition that involves the need for affiliation is the deprivation from social interaction (McClellan, 1985). Conditions such as loneliness, rejection, and separation raise people’s desire, or social need, to be with others. The need for affiliation expresses itself as a deficiency-oriented motive (the deficiency is a lack of social interaction). Cho, who according to several of his classmates was a loner, felt a high need for affiliation and he failed to manage it in a proper way. Generally, those who feel lonely try to get along with others, but Cho was too shy (he wouldn’t speak out in front of his classmates even when the teacher called on him to speak) and it made the situation worse and worse. He didn’t even bother to socialize with others, maybe due to a fear of rejection.

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