The Relationships Between General Health and Emotional Intelligence with Defence Mechanisms on University Students of Payame Noor University

AbstractThe aim of present study, studies relationships between general health and emotional intelligence with defence mechanisms on university students of Payam Noor university branch of Marand. The sample size was 120 university students were chosen by a multi-stage cluster sampling method with different majors. For gathering data, students filled out Goldberg general health questioner, and bar _On emotional intelligence questioner and DSQ- 40 defence mechanisms questioner. To analyse the data, Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression analysis were used. The findings revealed there were positive associations between general health with some defence mechanisms and positive association between emotional intelligence with some defence mechanisms too but negative association between general health and emotional intelligence