Personal styles of reaction to the frustration of others as portrayed by multidimensional scalogram analysis

A questionnaire for the assessment of reactions to the frustration of others was constructed and administered to 56 Ss. This questionnaire concentrated on the reported intensity of eight reactions, namely: Pity, Attempt to Help, Reproach, Withdrawal, Disgust, Mockery, Anger, and Malicious Joy. Each one of the 56 Ss had a total profile of the eight reactions, and these profiles were analyzed by Multidimensional Scalogram Analysis (MSA). MSA led to the conclusion that the personal styles of reaction could be characterized as a Cartesian product of two facets: A ) Activity-Passivity of the reaction, b) High vs. Low Intensity of the reaction. A third facet was hinted, which relates to the time-sequence of the reactions.