The effects of guilt arousal and severity of discipline on adult aggressive behavior

✍ Scribed by Jack E. Hokanson

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1961
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 328 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(196101)17:1<29::aid-jclp2270170109>3.0.co;2-k

✦ Synopsis

Applications of the Frustration-Aggression hypotheses ( l ) to socialization practices indicate that interference with the child's aggressive behavior (i. e. , punishment) is a frustration leading to further instigation to aggression. To date, this formulation has received tentative support from the work of Sears. ( 6 , 6 , A limitation of these studies, however, is the focus on maternal variables and their effect on childrens' aggressive behavior. The present study attempts to investigate the effects of severity of punishment and degree of guilt arousal used by both parents during socialization on subsequent aggressive behavior in male, college age subjects.

PROCEDURE

Eighty white, male undergraduate students a t the University of Wisconsin selected from a pool of 375 males taking an introductory or intermediate course in psychology served as subjects. Qetails of the selection procedure are presented elsewhere. C4) Ss were chosen on the basis of their scores on: Siegal's'?) Manifest Hostility Scale (1956), three TAT protocols (8BM, 3BM, 2) which were scored for hostile content, and first impression ratings of two photographs in terms of the degree of