Behavioral Tendencies and the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study
Behavioral Tendencies and the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study

Author: Lorene Dawson

Publisher:

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Frustration is an important aspect of everyday life, yet there are few techniques available to assess individual reactions to frustration. In addition, we have little experimental evidence on which to predict behavioral reactions to frustration based on generalizations drawn from the assessments we are able to make. A purpose of the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Suday is to assess or determine the characteristic way an individual responds to frustration. Thus, a study of average individuals, previously assessed for reaction to frustration, under controlled experimental conditions would give some explicit information regarding the tenability of predictions based upon this instrument. The attempt was made to keep the frustration task within reasonable expectancy of ongoing behavior of the subjects. The hypothesis was examined that the category of response to the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study, basically, the direction of aggression, extrapunitive, intopunitive, or impunitive, corresponds to differences in reaction and adaptation to frustration. The data indicated by performance variation of the Verbal Reasoning test of the Differential Aptitude Test administered under control and experimental conditions did not support this hypothesis. Suggestions were made as to the limitations of the technique used. The degree to which the Picture-Frustration Study may be amenable to statistical analysis, and the complex of motivation and frustration were discussed.

Prevention and Control of Aggression and the Impact on its Victims
Prevention and Control of Aggression and the Impact on its Victims

Author: Manuela Bach

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 1475762380

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Proceedings of the XIV World Meeting of the International Society for the Research on Aggression: Prevention and Control of Aggression and the Impact on its Victims, held in July 9-14, 2000, in Valencia, Spain. Aggression is an aspect of human society that has interested scientists for many decades, and their work has provided important knowledge about its causes and way to prevent and control this behavior. However, not only scientists but many professionals working in the wide spectrum of society, from family to international policy, are interested in having programs of interventions capable of reducing aggression and violence in our society. This comprehensive book is a compendium of most research approaches that are currently taking place in the field of aggression, focusing on the interventions to control and prevent this behavior and the impact on its victims. The chapters of the book include biological approaches to aggression, such as neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neuroendocrinology, genetics and psychopathology; information about aggression in children and adolescents in different settings such as family, school and community; characteristics if aggression in specific relationships such as marital and sexual, and specific settings such as bars, prisons and traffic; and cultural approaches to aggression, social prejudice, war and programs of peace. Furthermore, a small number of representative chapters about victims are included, ranging from the impact of aggression on behavior and physiology in animal models to victims of war. As this book highlights, the interventions to prevent and control aggression have to be diverse (highly heterogenic) in order to deal with all aspects of human beings and society, ranging from pharmacological control in individuals to programs of peace to promote respect among people and among nations. Scientists, academics and professionals dealing with any facet of aggression and its impact on our society will obtain in this book information about the complexity of this research field and the ways to approach our objective: eliminate aggression from the human behavioral repertoire.