Defensive Mechanisms and Their Role in Youth Social Health

This research was about Relationship between emotion regulation difficulty and defense styles with social health in students of university. For this purpose, 200 students of Educational Sciences were selected with Single-stage cluster sampling from Marvdasht University. Three questionnaires Difficulties in emotion regulation scale (DERS), public health and defense styles (DSQ-40) were used to collect data. For data analysis, statistical methods, correlation and stepwise regression methods were used. Result show that have negative significant correlation between social health and emotion regulation difficulty. Also, immature defense styles have a negative significant correlation with social health and participate and mature defense styles have a negative significant correlation with social health. Mature defenses styles have positive significant correlation with cohesion, social acceptance, and social health, and neurotic defense styles have negative significant correlation with flourishing. Regarding predictive power of the social health with emotion regulation difficulties, Subscales of lack of transparency emotional and the difficulty of handling the purposeful behavior could predict social health and other factors have no significant correlation with social health. Finally, immature and mature defense styles are a significant linear relationship to predict social health and neurotic defense styles don't have predictability power for social health in students.