The role of self-knowledge in stress,defensive styles,and physical health

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Received: 2015-06-09 Accepted : 2015-06-09 Published : 2006-12-22

Keywords: Stress, self-knowledge processes, defensive styles, vitality, symptoms illness, integrative self-knowledge, minfulness, private self-consciousness,

Abstract :

108 female and 69 male iranian university students,during the stressful period of final exams,responded to the following scales:integrative self-knowledge(Ghorbani,1385),mindfulness attention awareness(Brown & Ryan,2003), private self-consciousness(fenigsteinet al., 1975), defense styles(andrews,et al.,1993), perceived stress (cohen et al., 1983), subjective vitatily(ryan fedrick,1997), symptom and illness(watso & pennebaker,1989) and symptom checklist(barton, 1995). the main hypothesis was that self-knowledge processes would be negatively correlated with illness and unhealthy defensive styles,whrer ingegrative self-knowledge plays the key role.data showed that,among different self-knowledge pricesses, only integrative self-knowledge predicted illness,symptoms,vitality,and healthy defensive styles.in addition, integrative self-knowledge and internal state awareness predicted mature defensive styles amd perceived stress.minfulness was negatively related to the immature defensive styles.