The aim of this diploma thesis is to find out how do adolescents using addictive substances cope with everyday stress and whether their answers differ from the ordinary population of their peers. For this purpose, the Czech version of Rosenzweig's picture frustration test (C-W) was used. The theoretical part summarizes our knowledge about frustration and possible manifestations of reactions to frustrationand it places this phenomenon into a terminological and theoretical framework. It also deals with adolescence from the point of view of potential stress situations and presents possible adolescents' responses to these circumstances. Finally, this part describes possible causes and manifestations of addiction in adolescents. The aim of the practical part is to present how the responses of 40 adolescent users of psychoactive substances to common frustrating situations compare with ones of the normal peer population. The results of the survey from the point of view of the direction of aggression show that drug-using adolescents most often blame their social surrounding for the frustrating situation or expect a solution to come from their surrounding. More often they choose a self-accusatory reaction rather than trying to get over the frustration or to avoid aggression. From the point of view of the...

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