A test for diagnosing psychological defense mechanisms.

Percentage of tension in psychological defense mechanisms:
Repression: 40%
Substitution: 30%
Projection: 42%
Hypercompensation: 30%
Regression: 35%
Denial: 9%
Compensation: 10%
Rationalization: 58%
Overall tension: 33% (average: 40-50%)

Psychological defense mechanism:

Intellectualization. This defense mechanism is often referred to as "rationalization." The authors of the methodology have combined these two concepts, although their essential meaning is somewhat different. For example, the action of intellectualization manifests itself in an excessively "intellectual" way of overcoming a conflicting or frustrating situation without experiencing emotions, based on facts. In other words, a person suppresses the feelings caused by an unpleasant or subjectively unacceptable situation with the help of logical attitudes and manipulations, even if there is convincing evidence to the contrary. According to F.E. Vasilyuk, the difference between intellectualization and rationalization is that it essentially represents a "departure from the world of impulses and affects into the world of words and abstractions."

In rationalization, a person creates logical (pseudo-reasonable) but plausible justifications for their own or someone else's behavior, actions, or feelings caused by reasons that they (the person) cannot acknowledge due to the threat of losing self-respect. In this defense mechanism, obvious attempts are often observed to reduce the value of experiences that are inaccessible to the person. For example, when in a conflict situation, a person protects themselves from its negative effects by reducing the significance for themselves and others of the reasons that caused this conflict or psychologically traumatic situation. Sublimation was also included in the intellectualization-rationalization scale as a psychological defense mechanism, in which repressed desires and feelings are hyperbolically compensated by others that correspond to higher social values professed by the person.