Defence Mechanisms versus Coping Mechanisms in Students

The present work aims to analyze the cognitive defense mechanisms of students and the coping mechanisms used by students and the correlation between them. The research of the paper includes: a proper investigative part using as main methods: a COPE questionnaire - elaborated by Carver, Scheier and Weintraub, and the evaluation scale of cognitive defense mechanisms-SEMCA (elaborated by Mircea Miclea, 1999). The conceptual bases of the work were the following psychological concepts: Theories related to coping mechanisms and cognitive defense mechanisms (Folkman, 1985) (Freud S., 2005) (Freud A., 2002), (Iosifescu, 2002); (Miclea, 1997).