Keyword: «psychological defense mechanisms»

The article analyzes the psychological protection of adolescents with mental retardation who are brought up in a boarding school. The comparison of the profiles of psychological protection of a group of teenagers and adolescents with delayed development who live in families and enrolled in secondary school.

The article presents the results of an empirical study of the features of psychological defense mechanisms at different levels of personal anxiety in adolescence. The author concludes that with high personal anxiety, most psychological defenses are more intense than with a low level. At the same time, it is noted that at different levels of personal anxiety, the general trends in the distribution of results for individual mechanisms of psychological protection are similar.

Psychological protection of personality is one of the most controversial phenomena in psychological science, attracting the constant attention of researchers. Nevertheless, the problem of studying the psychological defenses of the individual is one of the underdeveloped ones. According to researchers (A. Freud, R. Plutchik, E.S. Romanova, E.R. Grebennikov, I.M. Nikolskaya, R.M. Granovskaya), it is at primary school age that the basic protective strategies of human behavior are determined. This leads us to the need to study the psychological protection of the personality of younger schoolchildren and the factors influencing their formation. The article presents the results of a study of the types of psychological defenses among younger schoolchildren. The results of the study indicate that the most intense at this age are such types of psychological defense as intellectualization and projection, and the least tension is observed in regression and replacement.