title: Aggression in abused children: differential responses to the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study.
abstract: The Children's Form of the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study was used to measure direction of aggression in a sample of 30 physically abused children and a matched control group of 30 nonabused children. The abused children had higher E scores and lower M scores than the nonabused, but only on a subset of the pictures involving child-child interactions. These findings support previous reports in the literature that responses to the test differ according to whether the frustrating agent is an adult or a child. Implications of the results for the use of the test and for abused children are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011386:Projective Techniques