Submitted by Estagiário SPT BMHS (spt@fgv.br) on 2012-05-09T14:32:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 000030059.pdf: 18807481 bytes, checksum: 7fbf90ea4b4e00a28f3df2e96bb358f9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-05-09T14:33:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 000030059.pdf: 18807481 bytes, checksum: 7fbf90ea4b4e00a28f3df2e96bb358f9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1984 / The objective of the following research was to study the effects of frustration as an instigator of aggression in children behavior. Two groups of children were selected, one experimental group and other control group, in two teaching institutions in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The sample of children under study varied between five to seven years of age. Two films were projected: to the experimental group, one action-adventure film during which frustration was manipulated, and the other - group of control - a neutral film about animal life. The frustration manipulation was introduced by three interruption during the film These interruption were intented to be similar to commercials programs for children. The instruments used were questionnaries answered by teachers and by the children: these questionaries were handled by research assistants. The behavior of the children was video-taped,during the recreation session. The date analyses showed a greater aggression in the group under stimulus of an action-adveture film under frustration. Teoretical considerations were made to the hypothesis whether aggressive behavior is hereditary (instinctive) or conditioned by the environement. It is proposed that behavior does not come from genetical equipement; where the decisions compete to the 'great parliament of the. instincts,' neither comes from social conditioning. The position assumed by the Yale group is criticized while it explains the behavior as an answered to the environement. The influence of cognitive processis in human behavior is assumed. A critique to infantile program of TV is whether it enlarges and diffuses the report of violent stories, or whether these stories are what is educationaly better and whether it is what the infantile audience desires. The infantile programs of TV are in its majority imported from a different culture, strange to our national reality. / Esta tese pretende levantar e problematizar a influência da televisão na investigação da agressividade infantil. Para esse objetivo selecionou-se dois grupos de crianças, um grupo experimental e outro de controle oriundos de dois estabelecimentos de ensino da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. As crianças que compuseram a população estudada variavam de idade entre cinco e sete anos. Projetaram-se dois filmes: ao grupo experimental, um filme de ação - aventura dado com frustração e ao outro grupo - grupo de controle - um filme neutro caracterizado pelo desenrolar de cenas da vida animal. A frustração ao grupo experimental foi introduzida através de três interrupções na projeção do filme, interrupções essas que, no contexto da programação infantil, seriam provenientes de anúncios, ou de quaisquer outros motivos. Os instrumentos utilizados foram questionários respondidos pelos professores e pelas crianças, anotados por dez auxiliares de pesquisa. O estímulo 'diferencial foi introduzido através dos dois filmes. Seguiu-se a sessão lúdica onde predominaram brincadeiras de jogos e bola, sendo feito na ocasião um video-tape. As auxiliares de pesquisa anotavam também os itens que lhes foram solicitados.