Gender, age, and cultural differences in the Defense Style Questionnaire-40

Watson, David; Sinha, Birendra K.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199801)54:1<67::aid-jclp8>3.0.co;2-r

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“…Studies using the DSQ-40 have usually chosen a three-factor solution without performing a factor analysis. To our knowledge, the only exceptions are the two adult studies conducted by Watson and Sinha (1998) and Punamäki et al (2002). The former resulted in a five-factor solution, but the results were reported using three factors, whereas the latter was reported using four factors.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…The defenses favored by girls (somatization, displacement, anticipation, and reaction formation) are in line with previous results . The boys' emphasis on suppression, denial, and devaluation also somewhat support the previous results found in adults (Watson, 2002;Watson and Sinha, 1998) and adolescents . Because of suppression, the boys scored higher on the mature defense style than the girls; the boys also used more image-distorting defense style.…”

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“…Comparable psychometric properties have been reported for different forms of the questionnaire Bond et al, 1989;Bonsack et al, 1998;Muris and Merckelbach, 1996;Sammallahti et al, 1996;Spinhoven et al, 1995). As with the 72-item scale, the 40-item DSQ has proven to be an internally reliable instrument with relatively high Cronbach ␣ values, split-half reliability, test-retest reliability, and item-scale correlations (Andrews et al, 1993;Watson and Sinha, 1998). Both the DSQ-72 and DSQ-40 have been suggested to explain psychiatric symptomatology (Holi et al, 1999;Watson, 2002).…”

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Psychometric Properties of the Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40) in Adolescents

Ruuttu¹,

Pelkonen²,

Holi³

et al. 2006

Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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This study examined the psychometric properties of the Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40) in adolescents. Internal consistency, factor structure, and discriminant and concurrent validity of the DSQ-40 were studied in 211 adolescent psychiatric outpatients aged 13 to 19 years and 199 age-matched and sex-matched controls. Principal components analysis yielded four internally consistent components: mature, neurotic, image-distorting, and immature defense styles. The outpatients reported more immature, image-distorting, and neurotic styles and less mature style than did the controls, suggesting adequate discriminant validity. As a demonstration of convergent and concurrent validity, the severity of psychiatric symptoms assessed by the General Health Questionnaire and psychosocial adjustment assessed by the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale correlated theoretically meaningfully with the different defense styles. The DSQ-40 appears to be a reliable and valid instrument for adolescents.

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Section: Factorial Construct Validitymentioning

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Psychometric Properties of the Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40) in Adolescents

Ruuttu¹,

Pelkonen²,

Holi³

et al. 2006

Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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“…In fact, there is mixed evidence that suggests that men use more adaptive or maladaptive coping strategies (e.g. Matud, 2004;Munteanu, 2003;Watson & Sinha, 1998). Men have been found to use a variety of defences, in particular isolation, intellectualization, fantasy and dissociation (Petraglia et al, 2009), suppression, devaluation, splitting, omnipotence (Watson & Sinha, 1988) and projection (Cramer, 1987(Cramer, , 1991.…”

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Effects of beliefs inyuanon coping and psychological well-being among Hong Kong Chinese

Mann

Cheng

2012

Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy

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The relationship between the belief in yuan and coping mechanisms, as well as an individual's psychological well-being, was explored in this study. Self-report questionnaires were administered to a total of 155 local Hong Kong men and women. Hierarchical regression analyses and factorial analysis of variance were run. No gender differences were found in adaptive or maladaptive coping and psychological well-being amongst the participants. Findings indicated that the belief in yuan contributed to the prediction of psychological well-being after controlling for coping. Significant gender differences have also been found in the level of the belief in yuan. Men and women were found to hold different attitudes towards yuan, which impacted their psychological well-being differently when the effect of coping had been partial out. There was a significant interaction effect between gender and the belief in yuan. Men were found to be firmer believers in yuan and such belief had a positive effect on their psychological well-being while the opposite was found for women. It was suggested that such a relationship is due to men's tendency to employ rationalization as a defence and that yuan provided men with a greater sense of security. On the contrary, the stronger women believed in yuan, the less self-perceived healthy they were, thereby indicating that yuan could be a form of coping strategy employed differently by contemporary men and women. It was hence concluded that although yuan appeared to be a traditional concept, it still continues to play a crucial role in influencing one's psychological well-being.

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“…Research supports the validity of the DSQ-88 (Andrews, Pollock, & Stewart, 1989;Andrews, Singh, & Bond, 1993;Bond, 2004;Bond et al, 1983;Bond & Wesley, 1996;Davidson & MacGregor, 1998;Yilmaz, Gencoz, & Mehmet, 2007) with African-U.S. people too (Azibo, 2007;Azibo, Jackson, & Slater, 2004;Oakley, Song, & Delrose-McQuirter, 2005). Short-form versions exist (Thygesen et al, 2008;Watson & Sinha, 1998).…”

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Nepenthe Theory of Defense Mechanism Functioning and Defensive Behavior in African-U.S. People With Replication and Extension to Psychological Africanity (Racial Identity)

Azibo

2015

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

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Gender, age, and cultural differences in the Defense Style Questionnaire-40

Cited by 46 publications

References 9 publications

Psychometric Properties of the Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40) in Adolescents

Psychometric Properties of the Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40) in Adolescents

Effects of beliefs inyuanon coping and psychological well-being among Hong Kong Chinese

Nepenthe Theory of Defense Mechanism Functioning and Defensive Behavior in African-U.S. People With Replication and Extension to Psychological Africanity (Racial Identity)

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