Defense Style Questionnaire

The SCORE :D
Mature ......30
Neurotic.....18
Immature....20
8. I'm able to laugh at myself pretty easily. (humor) Been doing this a lot lately. :lol:
51. I always feel that someone I know is like a guardian angel. (idealization) The best guardian is my own vigilance.
24. I pride myself on my ability to cut people down to size. (devaluation) This was a weird question????
53. As far as I'm concerned, people are either good or bad. (splitting) What i am seeing is people ether live in denial, or reality, with less living in realty.
42. I fear nothing. (denial) Like WJ say's "The real world is a danger zone".
 
Mature 40
Neurotic 12
Immature 21


Interesting test....

Good reminder of defense mechanisms/styles
 
Funny how serious I am about my image... stupid test :) (denial)
Mature: 33
Neurotic: 14
Immature: 20

Four areas to work at:
1. Laughing at myself - ha ha ha... I am so afraid of being/saying/ being perceived as stupid. Self importance. So easy to say. So hard to laugh ... ha ha ha :D. This one sounds inside of me loud.
2. changing dreaming to doing - it is like sacrificing my favourite things, like selling all that I have and putting on beggar's clothing
3. getting rid of guilt when being assertive - is like getting really alone, against everyone - as such this association came to me. I hurt people by being myself - this is some childhood program from narcissistic relations.
4. Generalizations like "doctors are never right" - is funny how I identified with that. I can find just few examples and believe that this statement is right. Funny. Automatic program. They are wrong I am right.

Hey, this was nice simple exercise which made some ferment.
 
lux said:
zlyja said:
3. 40. I work more things out in my daydreams than in my real life.

How do people "work things out" in their daydreams?
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It's about dissociation, in instance, when we are creating pleasurable ideas/presentations in our mind on our future, what we will do, and how we will be, without making any real efforts in this direction.
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That makes sense. Thank you. :)
 
My results:

Mature :: 43
Neurotic :: 4
Immature :: 13

I tried to be as objective as possible, although for some I was a bit torn. For instance, I can laugh pretty readily at myself when I am not tired or stressed. The last question about needing to do something to compensate for an aggressive thought, I took to mean "if I think something bad about a person, I need to think something good about a person to compensate for that" - which doesn't make any sense to me so I put strongly disagree on that one. I was thinking it could also mean, if I have an aggressive thought I need to do something to deal with it, like breathing, reminding myself to not get carried away, etc. But I guess the keyword being compensate and not address, or deal, or handle. My immature rating is so high because doctors really never did understand what is wrong with me :D

Not sure what to think of the results, though. I am surprised I didn't score higher on the neurotic and immature scales.
 
I tend to find tests like these really interesting, even if sometimes one can tend to over(or under!)think certain questions when phrasing seems odd.

My scores were:

Mature: 42
Neurotic: 4
Immature: 5

For me, what I was thinking about while taking this test though is how I may have answered these questions say 5 years ago and how much different my scores would probably have been. I tend to handle things in a much different way these days and am feeling much more fulfilled in life as a result. :)
 
Sometimes when filling out questionnaires or surveys, I wonder if I could totally forget everything I answered and then fill it in again if I would get very different results.

Here are my scores:

Mature: 39
Neurotic: 18
Immature: 27
 
Here's my scores:

Mature 42
Neurotic 21
Immature 29

Used to do quite a lot of these but not so much recently - especially when interpretation can muddy the waters. Tried not to over (or under) think it.
 
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