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Title: | The Associations Between the Maladaptive Personality Dimensions of Neediness and Self-Criticism, Defense Styles, Selfobject Needs, and Attachment Styles in an Iranian Sample |
Authors: | Tondar, Shima Campos, Rui C. Shakiba, Shima Dadkhah, Asghar |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Abstract: | The present study extends previous findings by examining whether defense styles, selfobject needs, attachment
styles relate to Neediness and Self-Criticism, as maladaptive personality dimensions focused, respectively,
on relatedness and self-definition in an Iranian sample. Three hundred and 52 participants completed
a sociodemographic questionnaire as well as the Persian forms of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire,
Experience of Close Relationships-Revised, Defense Style Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory—II and
Selfobject Needs Inventory. Two multiple linear regression analyses, entering Self-criticism and Neediness as
criterion variables, were computed. According to the results, high attachment anxiety, high immature defenses,
high depressive symptoms, and high need for idealization were related to self-criticism, and explained 47%
of its variance. In addition, high attachment anxiety, low mature defenses, high neurotic defenses, high
avoidance of mirroring, and low avoidance of idealization/twinship were related to neediness, and explained
40% of its variance. A principal components analysis was performed, entering all the studied variables. Three
factors emerged; 1 describing a maladaptive form of psychological functioning and 2 describing more mature
modes of psychological functioning. The results are discussed in their implications for the understanding of
neediness and self-criticism as maladaptive personality dimensions focused, respectively, on relatedness and
self-definition. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/21838 |
Type: | article |
Appears in Collections: | PSI - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científica CIEP - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científica
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