Correlation Between Defense Mechanisms and Character Accentuations of Personality

Interrelation between Character Accentuations and Defense Mechanisms in University Students

“…No significant correlation was observed with other protection mechanisms. In previous studies, the same results were obtained (Buravleva & Telelichko, 2019).…”

“…A less significant relationship with the projection (r = 0.103) was also found at the significance level of p = 0.005, but because it was not so strong, further analysis was not conducted for this mechanism. In similar studies, the relationship of emotive accentuation with regression was established (Buravleva & Telelichko, 2019), another work found with the relationship with rationalization and compensation (Muslumov et al, 2019).…”

“…In the group of students with exalted accentuation, a positive correlation was established with the following defense mechanisms: regression (r = 0.425), projection (r = 0.369), substitution (r = 0.316), compensation (r = 0.235), and rationalization (r = 0.131), with the significance level of p = 0.001 (Table 1). In previous studies, the relationship was established with regression, compensation, projection, and substitution (Buravleva & Telelichko, 2019), in another case with regression and rationalization (Muslumov et al, 2019). Thus, apart from the regression mechanism, other conclusions comply with previous studies.…”

“…Psychological defense preferences depending on the psychotype have already been studied by foreign and domestic psychologists (Buravleva & Telelichko, 2019;Gladyshev, 2022;Mikhailova et al, 2009;Muslumov et al, 2019;Bond, 2004;Vaillant, 1994). These studies were based on the assertion that, on the one hand, the formation of psychological defenses largely depends on the individual typological characteristics of a person, and on the other hand, behavioral stereotypical reactions to stress affect the process of character formation.…”