Inventory of Agonistic Reactions to Psychosocial Confrontive Situations

Abstract

The inventory here described represents a variant of inter-actionism in a self-report agonistic inventory. The situations, reactions, and scoring of the inventory are empirically based. Relational age and sex of instigator to the responder were used to generate four scales within each psychosocial situation. While sex of the responder did not interact with the different situations per se, responder's sex did interact with the age-sex scales. Men were more influenced by these psychosocial aspects of the instigator than were women.