Defense Mechanisms and Psychological Adjustment in Childhood
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2003The association between maturity of defense use and psychological functioning was assessed in a group of 95 elementary school children. Defense mechanisms were measured using a valid and reliable storytelling task, and psychological adjustment was assessed through a combination of parent and self-report questionnaires.
Marlene J, Sandstrom, Phebe, Cramer
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Comparison of Three Psychological Defense Mechanism Questionnaires
Journal of Personality Assessment, 1981The Defense Mechanisms Inventory (DMI), the Coping Operations Preference Enquiry (COPE), and the scales developed by Joffe and Naditch (J&N) were compared using multitrait-multimethod logic. Convergent validity was tow as measures of the same defense were not highly correlated across instruments.
R R, Vickers, L K, Hervig
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Features of Manifestation of Psychological Defense Mechanisms of Penal Employees
Juridical Psychology, 2023The article analyzes issues related to the consideration of psychological defense mechanisms used by employees of the penitentiary system in their professional activities. The subject of the article was the results of a psychodiagnostic study. The purpose of the study is to study the features of the manifestation of psychological defense mechanisms ...
Yulia A. Sokolova, Natalya A. Samoylik
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Disturbed Children's and Adolescents' Comprehension of Psychological Mechanisms of Defense
The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1990This study examined the role of Piagetian logical and analytical reasoning in the comprehension of psychological defense mechanisms among 26 emotionally disturbed boys. Participants assigned to one of three Piagetian cognitive stages, listened to vignettes depicting defensive behaviors of various degrees of logical and structural complexity.
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Defense mechanisms in psychology today: Further processes for adaptation.
American Psychologist, 2000Although the concept of the defense mechanism was rejected from academic psychology for a number of years, recent empirical studies show renewed interest in defenses. Cognitive psychologists have confirmed the existence of unconscious psychological processes, a requisite for defenses.
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The Structure of Psychological Defense Mechanisms in Women as a Function of Alcohol Intoxication
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 1989The present experiment tested whether moderate alcohol intoxication influences the relative strength of different psychoanalytic defense mechanisms and whether the overall level of defense activity is changed. Thirty‐six women were randomly assigned to either an alcohol, a placebo, or a control group. The alcohol dose was 1.0 ml of 100% alcohol/kg body
R, Gustafson, H, Källmén
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The development of psychological‐mindedness: Children's understanding of defense mechanisms
Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 1981Abstract Questions addressed by this study included: “how well do children understand and how do they evaluate defense mechanisms in other children?”; “how does defense understanding relate to perceptions of defensiveness?”; and “do egocentric children have greater difficulty understanding defenses?”; To answer such questions, a sample of children were
Stephen J. Dollinger, Beth McGuire
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A Molecular Analysis Of Psychological Defense Mechanisms.
1968PhD ; Psychology ; University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/187382/2/6912126 ...
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Peculiarities of psychological defense mechanisms’ manifestations among educators
Conferinţa ştiinţifică internaţională "Învățământul superior: tradiţii, valori, perspective", 1-2 octombrie, 2022. Vol. 2, 2022The purpose of the article is to present a psychological analysis of the features of the mechanisms of psychological protection manifested by educators. The study analyzes theoretical approaches to studying the functioning of psychological defense mechanisms, including the approach of classical psychoanalysis, Neo-Freudianism, Transactional analysis ...
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THE BASIC APPROACHES TO PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSE MECHANISMS
2014В данной статье приводится сравнительный анализ взглядов психоаналитиков и современных исследователей на проблему психологической защиты, анализируется современное состояние изучения данного вопроса. Рассматривается принадлежность защитных механизмов к произвольного поведения человека.
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