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| Personality and defense mechanisms in late adulthood | | Author(s) | Yong Yu, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Shuji Honjo |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 20, no 5, August 2008 |
| Pages | pp 526-544 |
| Source | http://www.sagepublications.com |
| Keywords | Personality ; Health [elderly] ; Stress ; Attitude ; Evaluation ; Japan. |
| Annotation | Current understanding of the use of psychological defence mechanisms (DMs) in older people is limited. This study set out to examine individual differences in DMs and Cloninger's biosocial model of personality in two age groups (50-64, and 65-93), as well as their influence on health. A Japanese community sample of 330 completed the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI-125), the Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40), and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28). Across age groups, psychological well-being was related to lower levels of harm avoidance and higher levels of self-directedness. In addition, older age was related to decreases in reward dependence, cooperativeness, and increases in self-transcendence, DMs of isolation, denial, and splitting. An Age x Gender interaction revealed that men and women varied their pattern of age differences in some specific DMs. Results further suggest that image distortion defence may function to compensate resource loss. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081008207 A |
| Classmark | DK: CC: QNH: DP: 4C: 7DT |
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