Social Class Differences in Frustration Patterns of Alcoholics

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Abstract
As disclosed by Rosen -zweig''s Picture Frustration Study, middle class, ethnically acculturated lower class and American lower class alcoholics overtly emphasize adaptation to frustrating situations to a considerably greater degree than nonalcoholics. The lower class alcoholic frustration pattern is unconventional as compared with nonalcoholic norms as a result of overemphasis on conciliation and compromise. The middle class frustration pattern is conventional but tends in the same direction as that of the more conciliatory lower class group. Results of the study appear to indicate that overt frustration patterns of alcoholics reflect background of cultural training and the socializing effects of organized training programs such as the Alcoholics Anonymous group therapeutic process of character reeducation rather than deep-level inner reactions.

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