Paige is a young woman who wants her parents to treat her like an adult. But as soon as a problem arises in Paige’s life, she runs home and asks her parents to solve her problems, calling them "mommy and daddy." Paige is engaging in which defense mechanism

a. Displacement
b. Regression
c. Projection
d. Sublimation
e. Denial


b. Regression

Psychology

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