Effects of Frustration on Perceptual-Motor Performance1

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to study the effects of frustration upon performance. Child Ss were given the coding subtest of the WISC, after which the sample was divided, at random, into three experimental groups (high frustration, low frustration, and no frustratration) and then returned to an altered form of the coding subtest. An analysis of difference scores indicated a significant decrement in coding performance under high frustration when compared to nofrustration conditions only for boys. Although not significant, performance under low frustration was also lowered in comparison to performance under no-frustration conditions. Although the main effect of frustration was not significant for girls, they tended to respond in a direction opposite to that of the boys. Under high frustration conditions, males showed a significantly greater decrement in performance than did females, whereas in the no-frustration group, performance of girls showed a decrement, while boys improved.

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