APFIVE Assessing Rationalization as a Defense Mechanism
A researcher conducts a study examining defense mechanisms in college students. Students are presented with scenarios describing personal failures and asked to explain why they occurred. The researcher notices that many participants attribute their failures to external factors like unfair professors or difficult circumstances. Which methodological improvement would help better assess the use of rationalization as a defense mechanism?
A
Compare responses between freshman and senior students
B
Ask participants to rate how much they typically use rationalization
C
Include behavioral observations of participants’ actual responses to real failures
D
Use only scenarios involving academic failures
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