Association of Defense Mechanisms with Anxiety, Depression and Stress among Adolescents

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dc.contributor.advisorVig, Deepika
dc.contributor.authorVaishali
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-25T05:10:51Z
dc.date.available2023-06-25T05:10:51Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe present study was undertaken to examine the association of defense mechanisms with anxiety, depression and stress among adolescents. The total sample comprised 240 adolescents studying in class +1 and +2. The sample was selected randomly from Government Senior Secondary Schools of Ludhiana district of Punjab and equally distributed across two genders( males= 120 and females=120). A self- structured personal information sheet, Defense Mechanisms Inventory (Mrinal & Singhal 2012) and Anxiety, Depression and Stress Scale (Bhatnagar et al 2020) were used to collect relevant information from the respondents. The results revealed that major proportion of adolescents were at high level of using defense mechanisms and only 5 per cent were at low level.Girls were found to be using defense mechanisms at higher frequency than their counterparts.Majority of adolescents had low level of anxiety, depression and stress. Furthermore, significant gender differences were observed in overall anxiety, depression and stress where in more boys were found to have better mental health as compared to girls. Overall defense mechanisms were found to be non-significantly correlated with overall anxiety, depression and stress except one dimension of defense mechanisms viz. „Turning Against Object‟ which was found to be significantly and positively correlated with anxiety and stress among rural boys. The regression analysis brought light a non- significant contribution of defense mechanisms towards anxiety, depression and stress among adolescents.en_US
dc.identifier.citationVaishali (2022). Association of Defense Mechanisms with Anxiety, Depression and Stress among Adolescents (Unpublished M.Sc. thesis). Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810197707
dc.keywordsAdolescents, Defense Mechanisms, Anxiety, Depression, Stressen_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.pages66en_US
dc.publisherPunjab Agricultural University, Ludhianaen_US
dc.research.problemAssociation of Defense Mechanisms with Anxiety, Depression and Stress among Adolescentsen_US
dc.subHuman Development and family studiesen_US
dc.themeAssociation of Defense Mechanisms with Anxiety, Depression and Stress among Adolescentsen_US
dc.these.typeM.Scen_US
dc.titleAssociation of Defense Mechanisms with Anxiety, Depression and Stress among Adolescentsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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