Defense Mechanisms, Gender, and Adaptiveness in Emerging Personality Disorders in Adolescent Outpatients
| Autor: | Omar Carlo Gioacchino Gelo, Alessandro Gennaro, Ciro Conversano, Mariagrazia Di Giuseppe, John Christopher Perry |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Di Giuseppe, Mariagrazia, Perry, John Christopher, Conversano, Ciro, Gelo, Omar Carlo Gioacchino, Gennaro, Alessandro |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Defence mechanisms Personality Disorders Age and gender 03 medical and health sciences Sex Factors 0302 clinical medicine Rating scale Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans Personality Adaptation Big Five personality traits Defense Mechanisms media_common Age Factors Personality Disorder Settore M-PSI/07 Settore M-PSI/08 Adolescent Development medicine.disease Personality disorders Adolescence 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Personality style Female Psychology Dissociation 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Psychopathology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease. 208:933-941 |
| ISSN: | 1539-736X 0022-3018 |
| Popis: | The present study focused on demographic and personality differences in the use of 30 defense mechanisms in adolescents with personality psychopathology and explored the hierarchical organization of personality traits based on the adaptiveness of defensive functioning. A total of 102 self-referred adolescent outpatients were interviewed and assessed on defense mechanisms and personality traits using the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales and the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure 200 for Adolescents, respectively. Age and gender differences were found throughout the hierarchy. Pearson's correlations revealed a hierarchical organization of emerging personality disorders (PDs) in adolescence. More adaptive defenses were clearly associated with healthier personality style, whereas more pathological personality styles such as those with borderline traits were characterized by more rigid and maladaptive defenses. Dissociation was also associated with maladaptive personality types. Identifying the defenses associated with emerging personality disorders may inform the unconscious function of defense mechanisms in specific PDs. The systematic assessment of defense mechanisms might also help therapists to monitor changes during treatment. |
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