The nurse has recently been promoted to a new management position in her hospital.She is concerned about her new responsibilities and has found that she is having difficulty sleeping at night.This is an example of what ego-defense mechanism?
A) Compensation
B) Denial
C) Conversion
D) Displacement

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Conversion is unconsciously repressing an anxiety-producing emotional conflict and transforming it into nonorganic symptoms (e.g.,difficulty sleeping,loss of appetite).Compensation is making up for a deficiency in one aspect of self-image by strongly emphasizing a feature considered an asset.Denial is avoiding emotional conflicts by refusing to consciously acknowledge anything that causes intolerable emotional pain.Displacement is transferring emotions,ideas,or wishes from a stressful situation to a less anxiety-producing substitute.(Example: A person transfers anger over a job conflict to a malfunctioning computer.)

The Nurse Has Recently Been Promoted to a New Management