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Original Articles

The Defense Mechanism Inventory: A Review of Research and Discussion of the Scales

Pages 142-164 | Published online: 10 Jun 2010
 

Abstract

The current status of the Defense Mechanism Inventory (DMI) is assessed through a review of the published research. Despite some psychometric problems and questions of scale interpretation, the defense scales are found to be meaningfully related to cognitive, personality, pathological, and demographic variables. An argument is presented for the continued use of the individual scales.

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