Ladan Esmalian khamseh; Mahmood Nodargahfard; Mehdi Asadi Mofarah
Abstract
Objective:: Epilepsy is one of the most prevalent neurological disorders, the contracting of which causes numerousphysical, psychological, and social consequences. However, there are a number of defense mechanisms humanspossess, which are responsible for protecting an individual against the stress, anxieties, ...
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Objective:: Epilepsy is one of the most prevalent neurological disorders, the contracting of which causes numerousphysical, psychological, and social consequences. However, there are a number of defense mechanisms humanspossess, which are responsible for protecting an individual against the stress, anxieties, and pressures of everyday life.Accordingly, the present study was undertaken with the aim of investigating the comparison of defense mechanismsin a group of women with temporal lobe epilepsy against a non-clinical group of females.Methods:The research design of the present study was based on a causal-comparative case study. The statisticalpopulation of the study consisted of all epileptic women and their normal counterparts who had referred to ImamHossein Hospital in Tehran during the first half of 2019. The sample population included 40 female patients alreadydiagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy by neurologists through electroencephalography who were randomlyselected and compared to their 40 normal counterparts. The two studied groups were similar in terms of age, education,and marital status. Research data were gathered using the Andrews Defense Mechanism Questionnaire (DSQ40) andanalyzed by the SPSS24 software program employing multivariate statistical analysis of variance.Results: There was a significant difference (p <0.05) between the defense mechanism used in epileptic women andhealthy women.Conclusion: It can be concluded that women with epilepsy have different defense mechanisms and are more likelyto use immature mechanisms and neurotic defense mechanisms (only in terms of False Altruism) when compared tonormal women
