A rather unattractive woman seems to work diligently to be an excellent mother and a bright, exceptional employee, striving to please her husband and her boss, sometimes to the point that she sacrifices her own needs to assure that their needs are
met. This is an example of: a. intellectualization
b. compensation.
c. identification.
d. undoing.
B
Compensation is an unconscious process that allows us to make up for perceived deficits in one area by excelling in other areas to raise self-esteem. Intellectualization is a defense mechanism wherein a person avoids focusing on the distressing emotional aspects of a situation by focusing on its intellectual or factual aspects instead. Identification is an unconscious mechanism calling for assuming the desirable characteristics or behaviors of another. Undoing reduces anxiety by using positive behaviors to make up for unacceptable actions or thoughts.
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