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A comparison of adolescent and adult defense styles
A Nasserbakht1, K Araujo, H Steiner
1Stanford University, CA 94304, USA.
Child Psychiatry and Human Development
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
Despite the great need for assessment of the adaptive and defensive style of adolescents, there are few instruments available to assess these characteristics. We assessed Vaillant's defense hierarchial model in adolescents, using Bond's self-report questionnaire (DSQ) for adults adopted for adolescents. In all cases, the factor structure in adolescents differed from adults, which may represent a manifestation of development.