A preliminary investigation of the relationship between individual verbal behavior and aggressive reactions

Purpose of the Study. The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between aggression (as measured by the Rosensweig Picture-Frustration Study) and language usage. Subjects. The subjects were forty-seven students in an elementary psychology class at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas whose ages ranged from nineteen to thirty-nine. Thirty-four of the group were male, and thirteen female. Testing Procedure. The group was administered the Adult Form of the Resensweig Picture-Frustration Study, and then each subject wrote a short story within a twenty minute period. The date were analyzed and applied to the three sections of the inquiry as summarized below. [...]