| The present study investigated whether frustration, a type of antisocial affects that was not investigated in the previous studies, reduces helping and if so, whether an extended time for helping mitigates the negative effect of frustration on helping. Participants (N = 116) received either an insoluble/difficult anagram, designed to induce frustration, or an easy anagram and then read a letter that requested volunteers for recording printed materials for visually-impaired students either within 2-3 days (near future) or after 1 month (distant future). Helping was measured with the decisions to help and the numbers of pages participants were willing to record. The results showed no effects of frustration and time either on the decision to help and the amount of helping. The results implied that frustration is qualitatively different from the other antisocial affects (e.g., anger) on desire to provide helping. Factors that might have contributed to these findings were discussed. |
