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Shows which ways of coping with inner conflict and stress you use most: mature, neurotic or immature. It is not a diagnosis, only a picture of habits to talk through with a therapist.
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The Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40) by Andrews, Singh and Bond grew out of Bond's earlier questionnaire. Its 40 statements cover 20 defense mechanisms, two statements for each, such as humor, denial or projection. The defenses form three styles: mature, neurotic and immature. Each statement scores 1 to 9, and each style is the average of its statements, from 1 to 9.
The questionnaire describes habits, not disorders, and its authors give no cutoffs. Defense styles come from psychodynamic theory. Your answers show how you see yourself, and a therapist can help you look at them more closely.
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Source: Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40): Andrews G., Singh M., Bond M., 1993, The Defense Style Questionnaire, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 181(4), 246-256, DOI 10.1097/00005053-199304000-00006. English items as printed in the appendices of Giovazolias T., Karagiannopoulou E., Mitsopoulou E., 2017, Europe's Journal of Psychology 13(2), 269-285, DOI 10.5964/ejop.v13i2.1090 (CC BY), and Blaya C. et al., 2004, Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria 26(4), 255-258.
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