The comparison of psychological well-being and defense mechanisms in stuttereing and non stuttering students

The purpose of this study was to compare psychological well-being and defense mechanisms in stuttering and non stuttering students.The sample included 15 stuttering and 15 non stuttering students who were stuttering student Random sampling and non-stuttering student the cloning methods according to age and education status were selected. For data collection, the Psychological Well-being Scale and Defense Mechanisms Questionnaire were used. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance.Theresults showed that there are significant differences between the psychological well-being and defense mechanisms of stuttering and non stuttering students (p<0.01). In fact, the psychological well-being ofstuttering students was lower than that of non stuttering students. Also results showed that stuttering students used more immature defense mechanisms.