The Relationship between Borderline Personality Traits and Defense Styles with Marital Adjustment in Couples Referring to Counseling Centers

The aim of this study was To investigate the relationship between borderline personality traits and defense styles with marital adjustment. To achieve this goal, 300 individuals who referred to family counseling centers of Rafsanjan were selected by purposive sampling method. Then they were given the Leishnerling Personality Traits Questionnaire (1999), the Spanier Modified Marital Adjustment Questionnaire RDAS (1979) and the Defense Styles Questionnaire of  Andrews, Singh & Bond (1993). Then, the obtained data were analyzed by multivariate correlation coefficient and rRegression analysis. The results showed that borderline personality traits and immature defense style had a significant negative relationship with marital adjustment.Conflict of interest: According to the authors of the present article, there was no conflict of interest.Conflict of interest: According to the authors of the present article, there was no conflict of interest.