Defense Mechanisms

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Rorschach investigation of defensiveness, self-perception, interpersonal relations, and affective states in incarcerated pedophiles. 
  • A caution on the use of the MMPI K-correction in research on psychosomatic medicine. 
  • A comparison of aggressive-rejected and nonaggressive-rejected children's interpretations of self-directed and other-directed rejection. 
  • Aberrant behaviors of young boys with fragile X syndrome. 
  • Avoidant Coping Mediates the Relationship Between Self-Efficacy for HIV Disclosure and Depression Symptoms Among Men Who Have Sex with Men Newly Diagnosed with HIV. 
  • Blood pressure responses to mental stress in emotionally defensive patients with stable coronary artery disease. 
  • Characterizing the effects of sertraline in post-traumatic stress disorder. 
  • Chronic avoidance helps explain the relationship between severity of childhood sexual abuse and psychological distress in adulthood. 
  • Color blindness and interracial interaction: playing the political correctness game. 
  • Coming to terms: parents' response to a first cancer recurrence in their child. 
  • Compensating, resisting, and breaking: a meta-analytic examination of reactions to self-esteem threat. 
  • Compensatory control and the appeal of a structured world. 
  • Complementary justice: effects of "poor but happy" and "poor but honest" stereotype exemplars on system justification and implicit activation of the justice motive. 
  • Depression, anxiety, and functional impairment in children with trichotillomania. 
  • Facial expression and the affective component of cynical hostility in male coronary heart disease patients. 
  • God and the government: testing a compensatory control mechanism for the support of external systems. 
  • In search of the silver lining: the justice motive fosters perceptions of benefits in the later lives of tragedy victims. 
  • Interaction of temperamental resistance to control and restrictive parenting in the development of externalizing behavior. 
  • Limbic system-adrenal cortex regulation in depression and schizophrenia. 
  • Masked depression in a combined medical-psychiatric unit. 
  • Maternal depression in association with fathers' involvement with their infants: spillover or compensation/buffering? 
  • Mechanisms of change in dialectical behavior therapy: theoretical and empirical observations. 
  • Modifications in children's goals when encountering obstacles to conflict resolution 
  • Motivational and emotional aspects of the self. 
  • Multilevel regression analyses to investigate the relationship between two variables over time: examining the longitudinal association between intrusion and avoidance. 
  • Parents' and early adolescents' self-efficacy about anger regulation and early adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems: A longitudinal study in three countries. 
  • Predictors of emotional numbing in posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Predictors of intimate partner violence revictimization: the relative impact of distinct PTSD symptoms, dissociation, and coping strategies. 
  • Protecting the self from the negative consequences of risky decisions. 
  • Relation of threatened egotism to violence and aggression: the dark side of high self-esteem. 
  • Religious attitudes and practices of hospitalized medically ill older adults. 
  • Religious belief as compensatory control. 
  • Self-compassion and reactions to unpleasant self-relevant events: the implications of treating oneself kindly. 
  • Social goals: relationship to adolescent adjustment and to social problem solving. 
  • Temperamental resistance to control increases the association between sleep problems and externalizing behavior development. 
  • The cost of self-protection: threat response and performance as a function of autonomous and controlled motivations. 
  • The effects of providing lung age and respiratory symptoms feedback on community college smokers' perceived smoking-related health risks, worries and desire to quit. 
  • The egoism and altruism of intergenerational behavior. 
  • The role of internalized homonegativity in the faith and psychological health of lesbians. 
  • Treatment of adolescents in family therapy after divorce.