Question

Maureen is really frustrated that the contractor working on her house is taking so long. But she doesn’t want to yell at him because she is worried he will not produce quality work for her if she does. Instead, she yells and snipes at her husband. Maureen’s aggression is ____________.a) displacedb) violentc) Instrumentald) proactive

Answer 1

a) displaced

Step-by-step explanation:

In the given example, Maureen is using a defense mechanism by displacing her anger from the contractor to her husband.

Displacement is one of the psychological defense mechanisms, which states that the negative or pessimistic feelings are being transferred or displaced from the source of the feelings and emotion to a less threatening object or person.