Defense Styles and Personality Among Young Adults

Abstract

Personality designates the patterns of behavior and pre dispositions that determine how a person will think, feel and act. Defense styles consisted of apparent derivatives of defense mechanisms. Defense mechanisms are psychological strategies brought in to play by various entities to cope with reality and to maintain self-image. The present study was an attempt to find out relationship between different defense mechanisms and personality in young adults. The sample consists of a total of 120 young adults whose age’s ranges from 19 to 40. The results indicated that male and female young adults significantly different on the variables personality and defense style. The study also found out that different defense styles are related with personality.