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Psychosomatic Medicine 32:243-258 (1970)
© 1970 American Psychosomatic Society

Responses to "Frustration" in One-Year-Old Infants

YALE KRAMER MD1 and LEONARD A. ROSENBLUM PhD1

1 Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

Address for reprint requests: Dr. Y. Kramer, Department of Psychiatry, Downstate Medical Center, University Hospital, 450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11203

Qualitative and quantitative responses to a frustration situation in a sample of 1-year-old normal infants are described. The findings indicated considerable variation in the quality of affect and the span of interest. In 1 group of infants, negative affect developed in a relatively short period of time and resulted in disruption of interest; in another group of infants, no negative affect developed but instead, a shift in their focus of interest occurred. There was a significant difference in the latency of these two responses. In addition, a small but significant sex effect was observed--females tending to have relatively shorter spans of interest. There was no significant effect on these responses due to variations in age, developmental maturity or maternal parity.

Submitted on February 4, 1969
Revised on July 11, 1969






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