A comparison of adolescent and adult defense styles.
Despite the great need for assessment of the adaptive and defensive style of adolescents, there are few instruments available to assess these characteristics. We assessed Vaillant's defense hierarchial model in adolescents, using Bond's self-report questionnaire (DSQ) for adults adopted for adolescents. In all cases, the factor structure in adolescents differed from adults, which may represent a manifestation of development.
Nasserbakht
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Stanford University, CA 94304, USA.
Araujo
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Steiner
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D010553:Personality Development; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors