Remembered Parental Styles and Its Affect on Defense Mechanisms and Personality Styles

Previous research has demonstrated a reciprocal influence between parental styles, defense mechanisms and personality styles. This study aimed to investigate the impact of remembered parental styles on defense mechanisms and personality styles. Additionally, the study sought to illustrate the associations between different parental styles and their corresponding manifestations of defense mechanisms and personality styes. The sample size of the study was 35 (23 female, 10 male and 2 other) whose age ranged between 18 to 24. The data were collected through a questionnaire package including demographic information, the Measure of Parental Style, a self-assessment tool used to measure perceived parenting styles across three measures: indifference, abuse and over control for both the mother and the father of the subject, the Defense Style Questionnaire which is designed to identify defensive functioning and coping styles and lastly, the Personality Inventory For DSM-5 Brief Form (PID-5-BF) - Adult which assesses personality domains; negative effect, detachment, antagonism, disinhibition and psychoticism.