TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - Children's defensive responses and emotional upset following a disaster: a projective assessment
JO  - Journal of personality assessment
A1  - Dollinger, S. J.
A1  - Cramer, P.
SP  - 116
EP  - 127
VL  - 54
IS  - 1-2
N2  - Projective stories were used to assess the defense mechanisms of 27 preadolescent boys who were victims of a lightning strike in which one boy died. Denial, projection, and identification, in combination, were found to be inversely related to clinical upset, as was the age and sex-appropriate individual defense of projection. In addition, low-defensive boys' self-reports of fears agreed more often with their parents' reports of sleep and somatic disturbances than did high-defensive boys' self-reports. The findings provide support for the validity of the Defense Mechanism Manual (Cramer, 1982) and raise the issue of defense mechanisms as moderator variables in self-report questionnaires.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-3891
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223891.1990.9673979
ID  - ref1
ER  -