Rosenzweig Picture Frustration Study

The Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study, a projective personality measure and is a test of latent hostility;

Format
Each of the three forms (child, adolescent, and adult) consists of 24 comic strip pictures that portray a situation that might induce frustration.

Administraion
The test is usually considered a semi-projective technique and involves an examinee responding verbally to a semi-ambiguous picture stimuli.

Interpretation
The overall purpose of the study is to assess how the examinee responds to frustration and frustrating situations. The test assumes that the way that the examinee responds to each frustrating situation depicts how they behave in the face of frustration. The worth of this test is based on how aggression is conceptualized into three types. The final direction is imaggressive which means that it is evaded in an attempt to gloss over the frustration.
 * The first direction of aggression can be extragressive meaning that it is turned onto the environment.
 * The second direction is intraggressive meaning that it is turned by the examinee onto the self.

Reliability
the P-F Study interscorer reliability is in the range of .80 to .85. The test-retest reliability is fair to marginal.