Choice of defense mechanisms by indian and white adolescents
✍ Scribed by James C. Martin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 182 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
An analysis of Defense Mechanism Inventory scores from Indian and white adolescents indicated some cultural differences. Differences between white, male-female performance scores were found in all five defense catagories. Differences between Indian, male-female performance scores were found for three of the five defense categories. Indian-white differences were found only for males and involved the two categories of turning against object and reversal. It was concluded that Indian child-rearing practices and culture may foster the development of reversal type defenses and inhibit the development of turning against object type defense within Indian males.