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Internship year represents the first actual contact of the nurse graduates with the real work environment with all its challenges. The transition from student nurse to qualified staff nurse is often filled with overwhelming stress. Many nurse interns reported being distressed and emotionally overwhelmed in dealing with new or traumatic experiences when rotating various critical clinical settings at Alexandria Main University Hospital. The experienced stress is likely to be exacerbated by lack of emotional regulation and adopting immature defenses that cause many forms of defensive behaviors. Consequently, nurses may experience burnout, low satisfaction in professional and social life and resign in the early phases of career. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the relationship between emotional regulation strategies and self –reported ego defense styles among nursing interns at Alexandria Main University Hospital. Subjects of this study included 100 nursing interns in the internship year 2014 -2015. Data was collected by using the following tools: Tool I: Defense Style Questionnaire 40’’ (DSQ-40), Tool II: Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ). Data was collected by the researchers after the first month of the beginning of internship year. Results: The finding showed that, mature defense style is positively correlated to cognitive reappraisal of emotional regulation. Whereas, immature defense style was positively correlated to emotional suppression. The only immature defense mechanism that female’s interns relied upon more heavily than men was somatization. A significant difference between gender and emotional regulation strategies, female’s interns tend to use more cognitive reappraisal, whereas, male tend to use more emotional suppression.

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Relationship between Emotional Regulation Strategies and Self –reported Ego Defense Styles Among Nursing Interns at Alexandria, Main University Hospital