Ahmed S M, Mapletoft S J
Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Percept Mot Skills. 1989 Oct;69(2):403-8. doi: 10.2466/pms.1989.69.2.403.
Two separate experiments are reported. They show the methodological difficulties and subsequent conceptual complications in Berkowitz's modified frustration-aggression theory and Zillman's theory of aggression. There was a marginally significant difference in the verbal measure of aggression favouring subjects aroused by frustration over subjects aroused by exercise, but not on the behavioral measure of aggression. Exp. II was conducted to test an alternative hypothesis, deduced from Fraisse's theory of emotion, which states that subjects respond more aggressively when confronted with unexpected than with expected annoyance. All six measures of aggression confirmed the hypothesis. The results of these two experiments indicate conceptual and methodological difficulties inherent in Berkowitz's modified frustration-aggression theory and Zillman's theory of aggression; they also suggest that Fraisse's theory of emotion presents a better model of aggression.
本文报告了两项独立的实验。它们揭示了伯克威茨修正后的挫折-攻击理论和齐尔曼攻击理论在方法论上的困难以及随之而来的概念复杂性。在言语攻击测量方面，因挫折而被唤起的受试者比因运动而被唤起的受试者表现出略微显著的差异，但在行为攻击测量方面并非如此。实验二旨在检验一个从弗雷斯情绪理论推导出来的替代假设，该假设认为，当面对意外烦恼时，受试者比面对预期烦恼时反应更具攻击性。所有六项攻击测量都证实了这一假设。这两项实验的结果表明了伯克威茨修正后的挫折-攻击理论和齐尔曼攻击理论中固有的概念和方法论困难；它们还表明，弗雷斯情绪理论提供了一个更好的攻击模型。
