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Self-defeating personality and strategies for coping with stress
Psychological Reports
|August 1, 1992
Abstract:
People who scored higher on a measure of self-defeating personality also scored low on ego-strength, showed an external locus of control, and used less adaptive coping strategies than those who scored lower. These strategies (denial, mental disengagement, alcohol and drug use) were viewed as helping to perpetuate their positions as victims.