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Gender, age, and cultural differences in the Defense Style Questionnaire‐40
Author(s) -
Watson David C.,
Sinha Birendra K.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199801)54:1<67::aid-jclp8>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - psychology , socialization , style (visual arts) , coping (psychology) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , archaeology , history
The Defense Style Questionnaire‐40 is a 40 item short form of the 88 item Defense Style Questionnaire. A cross‐cultural comparison was made between a sample of 635 Canadian university students and an Australian sample of 388 subjects reported by Andrews, Singh, and Bond. Differences between the two samples were noted for several of the defense scales. These may be a reflection of differential socialization patterns in coping with stress for the two countries. Gender and age comparisons were made for the 20 defense scales. Some interesting differences were noted for gender on the suppression, pseudoaltruism, and isolation scales. The internal structure of defense styles was also found to have similarities and differences for males and females with the DSQ‐40. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 54: 67–75, 1998.