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Aggression and Denominational Membership
Author(s) -
BROWN L. B.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1965.tb00460.x
Subject(s) - aggression , psychology , test (biology) , personality , social psychology , clinical psychology , biology , paleontology
To test the hypothesis that Catholics are extrapunitive and that Protestants are intropunitive, the Rosenzweig Picture Frustration Study was given in a battery of personality and religious belief tests to 258 students. The mean scores for extrapunitiveness were higher for the Roman Catholics than for any other group, while the Roman Catholic females have the lowest mean score on intropunitiveness. Some limitations on these findings are discussed.