Depressive and Aggressive Responses to Frustration: Development of a Questionnaire and Its Validation in a Sample of Male Alcoholics

Table 9

Partial correlations of reactions in QDF scales with the personality factors of aggression and depression, controlling for depression and aggression, respectively, (legend see Table 1).

QDF reactions	Aggression (contr. for depression)		Depression (contr. for aggression)
	posNH	negNH	posNH	negNH
1 (“always happens to me”)	.29*	.27*	.26*	.30*
2 (make the best of it)	.06	−.05	−.02	.12
3 (become angry)	.35**	.28*	.28*	.32*
4 (“such things just happen”)	−.14	−.16	−.07	−.17
5 (blame yourself)	.13	.12	.21	.26*
6 (blame everybody else)	.29*	.26*	.42**	.47**
	posH	negH	posH	negH
1 (“always happens to me”)	.31*	.28*	.26*	.35**
2 (make the best of it)	.09	.08	.09	.04
3 (become angry)	.23	.22	.31*	.39**
4 (“such things just happen”)	−.02	−.06	−.04	−.07
5 (blame yourself)	−.05	.25	.19	.23
6 (blame everybody else)	.19	.10	.15	.17

𝑃<.1; *𝑃<.05; **𝑃<.01.