Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the determinants of aggressive responses through Averill's questionnaire “Everyday Experience of Anger. ” Frist, four dimensions were found by the varimax rotation of eleven items of response following anger. They were each interpreted as direct aggression, displaced aggression, nonaggressive problem-solving, and suppression of anger. The quantification analysis I was conducted with these dimensions as criteria. The independent variables for the analysis were personality, situational (harms and harm-doer), cognitive, and emotional factors. The results indicated that the occurrence of aggressive responses depends on the sex and status of the harm-doer, the causal attribution of harm, and differential arousal of hostile and instrumental motives.
