Correlation between defense mechanisms and style peculiarities of self-regulation in patients with depression

  • Elena A. Truhan Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3981-3813
  • Natalia N. Morozova Minsk, Belarus
  • Tatyana O. Boud’ko Republican Research and Practice Center for Mental Health, 152 Dolginovsky tract, Minsk 220053, Belarus

Abstract

The article discusses the results of comparative and correlation research defense mechanisms and style peculiarities of self-regulation in patients with depression and in healthy people. The mechanisms of regression, compensation, reaction formations and the general intensity of psychological defense are significantly higher in patients with depression. Programming, evaluation and the general level of self-regulation are significantly higher in healthy people. The mechanisms of denial and intellectualization increase the ability to self-regulation in healthy people and in patients with depression; repression, regression and compensation, on the contrary, decrease. The functioning of psychological defenses increases the regulatory independence of healthy people and of patients with depression, but makes it difficult to condition modeling, programming and evaluation of the results. The greatest number of significant correlations between defense mechanisms and programming was found in healthy people and in patients with depression. An inversely correlation between the general intensity of psychological defense and the general level of self-regulation was found only in patients with depression.

Author Biographies

Elena A. Truhan, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

PhD (psychology), docent; associate professor at the department of psychology, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

Natalia N. Morozova, Minsk, Belarus

independent resercher

Tatyana O. Boud’ko, Republican Research and Practice Center for Mental Health, 152 Dolginovsky tract, Minsk 220053, Belarus

researcher

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Published
2020-01-24
Keywords: depression, stress, defense mechanisms, self-regulation, style peculiarities
How to Cite
Truhan, E. A., Morozova, N. N., & Boud’ko, T. O. (2020). Correlation between defense mechanisms and style peculiarities of self-regulation in patients with depression. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology, 1, 107-116. Retrieved from https://journals.bsu.by/index.php/philosophy/article/view/2078
Issue
No 1 (2020): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology
Section
Medical Psychology

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