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The purpose of this study is to prove the frustration-aggression hypothesis amongst Korean student and delinquent adolescents. The data was collected from 1,341 junior and senior high school students, and from 446 delinquent adolescents in correctional institutions, ranging in age from 12 to 21 years old as of June 1983. Frustration as an independent variable was classified first, as frustration and non-frustration according to each subject’s cognitive judgement; second, as extrapunitive, intropunitive, and impunitive according to inadequate defense reactions to frustration; third, as adequate, inadequate, and withdrawal according to the type of reaction to frustration. Finally 8 subtypes of frustration were delivered by cross matching each type of 3 classification categories. Aggression as a dependent variable was measured by the Chung-Ang Self Rating Aggression Scale consisting of an aggressive drive scale(10 items) and an aggressive behavior scale (10items). The aggressive drive scale has 3 subordinate categories such as an outer-directed expressive aggressive drive (5 items), an indirect displaced aggressive drive (2 items), and an inner-directed aggressive drive (3 items). The aggressive behavior scale has 4 subordinate categories such as an outer-directed expressive aggressive behavior (3 items), an indirect displaced aggressive behavior (3 items), a modelling aggressive behavior (1 item) and an inner-directed aggressive behavior (3 items). The relationships between the 8 sub-types of frustration and aggression were analyzed statistically by chi-square tests, eta, and contingency coefficient. The results of the analysis are as follows: 1. The student adolescents tend to cope with frustration adequately through self attribution, while the delinquent adolescents tend to cope with frustration inadequately through environment attribution. 2. Aggression is influenced by the subtypes of frustration in both student and delinquent adolescents. This finding is more pronounced amongst the delinquent adolescents. 3. In both groups, the aggressive drive is more influenced by the subtypes of frustration than is aggressive behavior. This finding is more pronounced amongst the delinquents. The subtypes of frustration influence both the aggressive drive and behavior in the students. In delinquents. In delinquents, aggressive behavior is not influenced by these subtypes. 4. The inner-directed aggressive drive and behavior, the indirect displaced aggressive drive and behavior, and the outer-directed expressive drive and behavior are more influenced in students by the subtypes of frustration. In delinquents, however, the inner-directed aggressive behavior and the indirect displaced aggressive drive are influenced by these subtypes of frustration. 5. The adolescents who have no frustration show the lowest aggression. Those who tend to cope with frustration by self attribution show the moderate aggression. Those who tend to cope with frustration by environment attribution show the highest aggression. These findings are more pronounced amongst the students than the delinquents. 6. The frustration-aggression hypothesis is proven more definitely by the students than by the delinquents.
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