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ISSN : 1229-0688
This study was attempted to validate the Korean version of Defense Style Questionnaire (K-DSQ). 465 college students completed the K-DSQ and measures of self-esteem, state and trait anxiety, psychoticism, neuroticism, and stress-coping strategies. Four factors were extracted from the factor analysis of the sixteen K-DSQ defense mechanisms, and each factor was termed as immature, adaptive, self-inhibiting, and conflict-avoiding defense style. The cluster analysis of subjects produced three clusters(adaptive. maladaptive, and borderline), and each style of defenses contributed specifically to each type of clusters to determine psychological functioning of adaptation of individuals within each cluster. The results showed that the K-DSQ had good psychometric properties as a measure of mechanisms and styles of defense, and that it could differentiate individual's psychological characteristics and adaptive functioning. The implications and limitations of the study were discussed along with some suggestions for future researches on defense mechanisms.