ROSENZWEIG DIFFERENCES IN REACTION TO FRUSTRATION IN CHILDREN OF HIGH, LOW, AND MIDDLE SOCIOMETRIC STATUS

Abstract

The way that an individual feels and acts when he is frustrated has been considered extremely important both in terms of theories of personality development and also as an essential of mental health. Little, however, is known of the relationship between an individual's social integration and his qualities for dealing with frustration. It might be assumed that the highly accepted individual, because of the security of feeling supported would react favourably to frustration; or it might be assumed that because he is involved in more social relationships he meets more frustrating situations and becomes either inured or more reactive to them. In order to clarify such speculations, we made the assumption that there would be differences in the way individuals of varying sociometric status reacted to frustration and decided to discover what the differences were through comparing their performances on the Rosenzweig Picture Frustration Test.