ABSTRACT
Perhaps the most important theory to stimulate research on antisocial behaviour was that proposed some sixty years ago which suggested that frustration is a major cause of aggression. Frustration occurs when a person is prevented from achieving a goal; more formally, frustration is the blocking of goal-directed behaviour. This means that we might expect that whenever we are thwarted in our efforts to complete a task or achieve a goal, whatever that goal might be, we may become aggressive. In fact there are three factors that determine the amount of frustration we feel:
1 how strong the drive to achieve a goal is; 2 the number of frustrating incidents we experience; 3 whether the blocking of our goal is total or partial.
