Psychological repression mechanism in situational and personal anxiety

Abstract

The article presents the results of a survey and study of the relationship of repression as a psychological defense mechanism and situational and personal anxiety at a young age. The relevance of the study is substantiated from the standpoint of both theoretical and empirical psychology, since the general stressfulness of the environment poses new goals for psychologists in the search for modern approaches using traditional methods to solve the problem. During the study, psychodiagnostic techniques were used: Life Style Index (R. Plutchik & H. Kellerman) and Anxiety Scale (C. Spielberger & Yu. Khanin), as well as methods of statistical data processing. High indicators of situational and/or personal anxiety contribute to an increased repression as a mechanism of psychological defense. The presence of repression has an effect on increased levels of situational and personal anxiety.