Openness to Experience, Ego Strength and Self-Description as a Function of Repression and Sensitization
- 1 June 1970
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 26 (3) , 859-864
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1970.26.3.859
Abstract
The study sought to determine whether persons differing in defensive style (R-S Scale) also differ systematically in their degree of openness to experience, ego strength (Es), and personality functioning (ACL). Using 3 groups of college students, high sensitizers, relative to their more repressed counterparts, were more open to experience, differed significantly on a large number of ACL scales and were no lower on Es than median R-S persons. Findings suggest that sensitizers, while critical, impatient, action-oriented, and personally more troubled, also have the capacity for personal integration (Es) and for more creative potential than previous literature would indicate.Keywords
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