Gender
Differences in Young Adults' Aggression Found by the Rosenzweig
Picture Frustration Study and by the Yatabe-Guilford Personality
Inventory
M. Hatsuzuka & Y. Ogushi |
Young
adults were studied for internalized aggression by a projective technique
[Rosenzweig Picture Frustration (PF) Study] and externalized aggression
by a questionnaire [Yatabe-Guilford (YG) Personality Inventory].
Subjects were 293 students, 8fi men and 247 women (mean age, 18.9
years). Extrapunitive scores measured by PF (PF-E) were divided into
high and non-high, and the YG aggression (Ag) scale was divided into
high, middle, and low. In the subjects with high PF-E scores, the
gender difference in the distribution of the Ag score was great.
In men, internalized and externalized aggression were correlated.
In women, Ag scores had two peaks, in the high and low areas. Men
expressed aggression in an uncomplicated way and women in a complicated
way, some with high levels of internalized aggression expressing
it and some repressing it. That aggression in these women was not
always inhibited reflects recent changes in the psychology of Japanese
women.
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