Defense mechanism responses to COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a wide range of negative physical and mental impacts. This review begins with a theoretical explanation of the psychological defense mechanisms used to deal with the pandemic. It then discusses different categories of defense mechanisms and their roles in managing the i...

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Autores principales: Altwaijri, Nouf, Abualait, Turki, Aljumaan, Mohammed, Albaradie, Raidah, Arain, Zahid, Bashir, Shahid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2022
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Psychiatry and Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8842651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35186458
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12811
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author Altwaijri, Nouf
Abualait, Turki
Aljumaan, Mohammed
Albaradie, Raidah
Arain, Zahid
Bashir, Shahid
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has had a wide range of negative physical and mental impacts. This review begins with a theoretical explanation of the psychological defense mechanisms used to deal with the pandemic. It then discusses different categories of defense mechanisms and their roles in managing the impacts of psychological distress. The aim of this review is to highlight the various psychological defense mechanisms individuals use to deal with the pandemic and to discuss how adjustment mechanisms can protect individuals from internal and external threats by shielding the integrity of the ego (the mind) and helping individuals maintain their self-schema.
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spelling pubmed-88426512022-02-17 Defense mechanism responses to COVID-19 Altwaijri, Nouf Abualait, Turki Aljumaan, Mohammed Albaradie, Raidah Arain, Zahid Bashir, Shahid PeerJ Psychiatry and Psychology The COVID-19 pandemic has had a wide range of negative physical and mental impacts. This review begins with a theoretical explanation of the psychological defense mechanisms used to deal with the pandemic. It then discusses different categories of defense mechanisms and their roles in managing the impacts of psychological distress. The aim of this review is to highlight the various psychological defense mechanisms individuals use to deal with the pandemic and to discuss how adjustment mechanisms can protect individuals from internal and external threats by shielding the integrity of the ego (the mind) and helping individuals maintain their self-schema. PeerJ Inc. 2022-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8842651/ /pubmed/35186458 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12811 Text en ©2022 Altwaijri et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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