243 male and 279 female Japanese adolescents attended the research as subjects scoring high and low in aggression. The 522 subjects were asked to estimate their anger and aggression after they were presented an hypothetical frustrative situation. How frustrators' intentionality to harm-doing and arbitrariness of frustration influence the retaliative response of subjects high and low in aggression was examined. Subjects high in aggression mostly showed stronger retaliative response than subjects low in aggression whatever the frustrator's intention was, although it was hypothesized that high group would show more aggression than the low group only when frustrator's intention to do harm was ambiguous.
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