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Differences In Frustration Reactions Of Nursery School Children, Sharon Marshall
Differences In Frustration Reactions Of Nursery School Children, Sharon Marshall
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The study of frustration has been of interest to various people including psychiatrists, psychologists, and educators for a number of years. These people have been interested in frustration because the complexity of our modern life has involved so many frustrating experiences. Frustration has been defined by Dollard (8, p. 7) as "an interference with the occurrence of an instigated goal response at its proper time." Ruch (21, p. 151) defined frustration as "the denial or thwarting by some obstacle which lies between a need and its goal." These two definitions are in essence identical. The average person has many obstacles …