ABSTRACT
Frustration tolerance describes and predicts the quality of a person’s performance in a task after frustration occurs. Frustration results from something observable and external to the individual. Frustration, as an objective event, occurs when a person encounters: an obstacle large enough to require special effort en route to satisfying a need (Rosenzweig, 1978), something that prevents or interferes with direct progress toward a goal (Waterhouse & Child, 1953), an object that interferes with the goal of moving in a certain direction (Minsky, 1986) or, something blocking the individual’s route, alternate paths to choose from, or a new and dominant stimulus for which he or she has no learned response (Maier, 1961).
