Self-defeating personality and strategies for coping with stress.
People who scored higher on a measure of self-defeating personality also scored low on ego-strength, showed an external locus of control, and used less adaptive coping strategies than those who scored lower. These strategies (denial, mental disengagement, alcohol and drug use) were viewed as helping to perpetuate their positions as victims.
Schill
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Psychology Department, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 62901-6502.
Beyler
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001242:Assertiveness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*