Expression of primary emotions and defence and protective reactions among deaf adolescents

The study examined the differences in defense, protective reactions, and expression of primary emotions between deaf or partially hearing impaired adolescents and their peers with normal hearing. Participants in the two groups were assessed by means of The Profile Emotions, The Life Style Index, and...

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Main Author: Maša Černelič Bizjak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Slovenian Psychologists' Association 2007-11-01
Series:Psihološka Obzorja
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Online Access:http://psiholoska-obzorja.si/arhiv_clanki/2007_3/cernelic.pdf
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description The study examined the differences in defense, protective reactions, and expression of primary emotions between deaf or partially hearing impaired adolescents and their peers with normal hearing. Participants in the two groups were assessed by means of The Profile Emotions, The Life Style Index, and Non-verbal Scale of Suffering. Deaf adolescents tended more towards uncontrolled and oppositional behaviour, and had a weaker sense of self-protection and deprivation. Moreover, their defense mechanisms (intellectualization, projection and negation) were more intensively expressed. A higher level of defense mechanisms of intellectualization was observed in hearing adolescents. On the basis of the obtained results and analyses we may conclude that deaf adolescents demonstrated some characteristics of lower level of adjustment: negative emotional responses, lower degree of control (more uncontrolled and oppositional behaviour, weakened sense of self-protection) and several simple, evolutionary more primitive defense mechanisms (excluding intellectualization). Our interpretation also takes into account that adolescents need to develop a new adjustment system as the old one ceased to function.
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spelling doaj.art-3a973c121d31456f9265445e47ccbaec2022-12-21T23:14:43ZengSlovenian Psychologists' AssociationPsihološka Obzorja2350-51412007-11-01163105123232Expression of primary emotions and defence and protective reactions among deaf adolescentsMaša Černelič BizjakThe study examined the differences in defense, protective reactions, and expression of primary emotions between deaf or partially hearing impaired adolescents and their peers with normal hearing. Participants in the two groups were assessed by means of The Profile Emotions, The Life Style Index, and Non-verbal Scale of Suffering. Deaf adolescents tended more towards uncontrolled and oppositional behaviour, and had a weaker sense of self-protection and deprivation. Moreover, their defense mechanisms (intellectualization, projection and negation) were more intensively expressed. A higher level of defense mechanisms of intellectualization was observed in hearing adolescents. On the basis of the obtained results and analyses we may conclude that deaf adolescents demonstrated some characteristics of lower level of adjustment: negative emotional responses, lower degree of control (more uncontrolled and oppositional behaviour, weakened sense of self-protection) and several simple, evolutionary more primitive defense mechanisms (excluding intellectualization). Our interpretation also takes into account that adolescents need to develop a new adjustment system as the old one ceased to function.http://psiholoska-obzorja.si/arhiv_clanki/2007_3/cernelic.pdfemotionsdefense mechanismsadjustmentdeafpartially hearing impairedadolescents
spellingShingle Maša Černelič Bizjak
Expression of primary emotions and defence and protective reactions among deaf adolescents
Psihološka Obzorja
emotions
defense mechanisms
adjustment
deaf
partially hearing impaired
adolescents
title Expression of primary emotions and defence and protective reactions among deaf adolescents
title_full Expression of primary emotions and defence and protective reactions among deaf adolescents
title_fullStr Expression of primary emotions and defence and protective reactions among deaf adolescents
title_full_unstemmed Expression of primary emotions and defence and protective reactions among deaf adolescents
title_short Expression of primary emotions and defence and protective reactions among deaf adolescents
title_sort expression of primary emotions and defence and protective reactions among deaf adolescents
topic emotions
defense mechanisms
adjustment
deaf
partially hearing impaired
adolescents
url http://psiholoska-obzorja.si/arhiv_clanki/2007_3/cernelic.pdf
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