Perceptual defenses and self-rated personality disorders: a multivariate analysis.
The relationships between defense mechanisms and personality disorders were explored by means of the Defense Mechanism Test and Millon's Inventory-II in a group of 100 psychiatric nonpsychotic outpatients. Only few significant positive nonparametric correlations were found, concerning barrier isolation, intro-aggression, and lateness of the threat. Also multiple regression analysis evidenced few significant results and mostly in the negative direction. The unpredicted findings may have been partly determined by a general elevation of personality scale scores (due to the emotional distress of psychiatric), leading to a loss of interindividual differences.
Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy.
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D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010467:Perceptual Defense; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010556:Personality Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics