Abstract
Individuals, who spend an important part of their lives on education, are inevitably exposed to stress when they begin undertaking more responsibilities and getting anxious about their future lives after ending their education lives. In other words, one can easily observe the symptoms of stress in individuals’ personal lives as soon as their school lives come to an end. In this respect, in order to obtain information about students’ thoughts regarding stress and about the mechanisms they use to cope with stress, the present study was conducted with students attending Anadolu University. In the study, a questionnaire was applied to a total of 600 students from such faculties of Anadolu University Faculty of Communication Sciences, Literature Faculty, Education Faculty, School of Physical Education and Sports, and Faculty of Pharmacy in the academic year of 2016-2017. Among all these students, 587 of them responded to the questionnaire. In the study, the purpose was to determine the students’ views about the mechanisms they use or avoid using under stress, about their coping with stress and about the causes of their stress. In line with their responses, the findings were examined under related dimensions, and the relationship between the most frequent defense mechanisms and the response categories was tested using Pearson Correlation. In addition, Cochran Q test was applied whether there was a significant relationship between the most frequent defense mechanisms of reaction formation and spoilt reaction, the rationalist approach and the fanciful approach. Consequently, there were significant relationships between the response categories, and significant relationships were found between certain defense mechanisms.
Highlights
In order to go on their lives and to continue their lineage, all living beings are supposed to adopt themselves to the environment where they were born and brought up
The research data were collected in relation to the extent of the university students’ use of various defense mechanisms, their coping with stress, and their views about stress
Regarding Cochran Q Test An important purpose of the study was to reveal the relationship between the defense of mechanisms of rationalist approach, fanciful approach, and reaction response and spoilt reaction
Summary
In order to go on their lives and to continue their lineage, all living beings are supposed to adopt themselves to the environment where they were born and brought up. People have been involved in the process of this adaptation not just biologically but mentally as well. People’s mental adaptation occurred mostly to preserve their personality integrity rather than to survive when they started controlling the nature and got out of the food chain. Human personality – with all its contradictory aspects – is regarded as a whole, and it involves the all the dilemmas of correct-wrong, good-bad and beautiful-ugly. Accepting human as a whole means accepting all these dilemmas. The reason is that what helps people develop their own personalities is the fight between these dilemmas, the consequent feelings of guilt, coping with these feelings, the effort to preserve their integrity, and the method they select
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