Parental defense style and child competence: A match-mismatch hypothesis |
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Authors: | Diane A Koch Michael J Chandler David W Harder Katherine F Paget |
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Institution: | Pediatric Mental Health The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, USA;University of British Columbia, Columbia;Tufts University and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester, USA;Tufts University, USA |
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Abstract: | This study sought to explore the possible relationship between parental style of psychological defense and children's social competence in 50 families in which one parent had been hospitalized for a psychiatric disorder. Based upon a formal analysis of the logical transformations inherent in various defense mechanisms, three levels of complexity of defenses were identified, along with a counterpart set of cognitive operations necessary for decoding these defense levels. It was hypothesized that children lacking the requisite cognitive skills to grasp the logical complexities of their disturbed parent's primary mode of psychological defense would be less socially adjusted and judged less competent than children who could understand the defensive transformations of their parent. The results suggested that children who, due to their cognitive immaturity, are potentially |
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Keywords: | Request for reprints should be sent to Diane A Koch Pediatric Mental Health The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center New York NY 10021 USA |
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