The DSQ-40 is a 40-item self-report questionnaire designed to highlight individuals’ defence mechanisms and was initially created in alignment with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).

The Defense Style Questionnaire--40 (DSQ-40; Andrews, Singh & Bond, 1993) is a modification of the original Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ; Bond, Gardner & Sigal, 1983), and was developed to create a psychometrically acceptable instrument in which the heterogeneity of defenses measured in the original DSQ was preserved in factor scores, while ...

DSQ防御方式问卷（Defense Style Questionnaire）是由加拿大心理学家M. Bond于1983年编制，并经过多次修订（包括1986年和1989年）的一种自评问卷。 该问卷旨在全面测查个体的防御机制特点，涵盖从不成熟到成熟的多…

2016年8月30日 · The 40-item version of the Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40) is a widely used self-report measure of defense mechanisms. A previous study, however, has suggested that 12 items out...

2017年1月1日 · The Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ) is a widely used self-report measure of empirically derived groupings of defense mechanisms ranked on an adaptive hierarchy.

A multi-level validity analysis of DSQ-40 was carried out. Methods: We applied trait assessing measures for anxiety, avoidant behavior, schizotypal traits and personality disorder diagnostic measures developed for DSM-5. To evaluate discriminant validity we applied instruments that assess the stability of self-esteem and the state of self and ...

The original English version DSQ-40 (Andrews et al., 1993) is composed of 40 items which measure the three defense styles categories; mature (anticipation, humor, sublimation and suppression), neurotic (idealization, reaction formation, pseudo-altruism and undoing) and

2017年4月12日 · Defense styles are empirically validated clusters of psychological defense mechanisms, measured with the Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ). The DSQ is a paper-pen, self-report questionnaire, with two versions containing either 88 or 40 items.

TL;DR: DSQ-40 is a reliable instrument to assess defense style that can be efficiently applied in clinical practice and that was supposed to be used as the sixth diagnostic factor of the new version of DSM.

A new 40-item Defense Style Questionnaire is published together with normative and reliability data on a normal population, patients with anxiety disorders, and child-abusing parents. The scores are unaffected by the sex of the respondent, but the endorsement of immature defense styles decreases with age.