Students' defence mechanisms and their impact on resilience, narcissism and academic achievement
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2016
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Maltepe Üniversitesi
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We often encounter stress in our daily life. Stress influences various spheres ol our life inciuding our inner world, job career, and personal life. ln case of students, first of all, it may significantly affect students' academic achievement. ln order to live a healthy and happy life we should protect ourselves from anxiety and stress. This fact motivated us to make a research on students' defense mechanisms use and its correlation with students' Resilience rate and Narcissism level. Defense Mechanisms in psychology refer to habitual ways of dealing with negative emotions, fear and frustration. Their main function is to distort, manipulate or even completely deny the reality in order to reduce your anxiety. Resilience is defined as an individual's ability to properly adapt to stress and adversity. Narcissism is a wide range of personality traits including exaggerated sense of self-admiration, tendency toward praising themselves. We expect that the more defense mechanisms students use. the lower resilience rate and narcissism level they have: and the opposite. the less defense mechanisms. the higher resilience rate and narcissism level students obtain. So, we decided to identify the most common defense mechanisms of students because this has significant implications to the teaching-learning process. We believe that teaching-learning practice should include a basic knowledge of these concepts as well as the methods ot use and improvement. The present study was conducted to explore frequency of use of defense mechanisms of 2nd and 3rd year students. The aim of the study was to ascertain relationship between defense mechanism use and students' academic achievement i.e. the degree of defense mechanism influence academic achievement and possibility of changing immature defense mechanism into more mature. Another aim of the study was to find correlation between 0efense Mechanism, Resilience and Narcissism, and thus. to find out whether there exist any difference between the frequency of Defense Mechanism use, the level of Narcissism and the rate of Resilience of 2nd year philology faculty students and 3rd year economic faculty s!udents. The sample included 36 economics faculty students and 34 philology faculty students selected from Suleyman Demirel University (SDLJ) and Kazakh-British Technical University (KBTU). We used 3 research tools to support our research hypotheses Defense Mechanism test. Narcissistic Personality Quiz and Resilience test. As the result we found out that high level of academic achievement requires the high level of resilience and the high level of narcissism. Teachers should first of all have these qualities in themselves in order to foster them in their students. The higher level of narcissism and resilience the more confident students are. The study stresses the need for fostering regulation of mature defense mechanisms. resilience and narcissism levels in students in order to help them achieve success in academic life and career. We believe that our findings will find confirmation in other research works and will change our society for the better.
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Maltepe University International Education Student Congress 2016
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Zhalgaspayev, M. ve Maibasarova, A. (2016). Students' defence mechanisms and their impact on resilience, narcissism and academic achievement / Öğrencilerin savunma mekanizmaları ve iyileşme, kendini beğenme ve akademik başarı üzerine etkisi. Maltepe University International Education Student Congress 2016, Maltepe Üniversitesi. s. 39-42.
