A Study of Alienation, Coping Strategy, Defense Style and Expression of Aggression of Transgender Women. Mohta Akanksha1, Mukherjee Tilottama2 1M.Phil Trainee, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Kolkata 2Asst. Professor in Clinical Psychology, Dept. of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata-700009 Online published on 17 February, 2014. Abstract Transgenders are physically, sexually and verbally abused, harassed by family members, society, government official and have little access to health care services, denied of job opportunities and face gross violation of human rights. This not only affects gender minority youth, but even his family and the larger society as a whole, in the long run. Keeping these facts in mind, the present study is an attempt to find whether transgender women differ significantly from non-transgender group with respect to alienation, coping strategies, defense style and expression of aggression. A group of 15 transgender (male to female) and 15 non-transgender males without any psychiatric morbidity between 18 to 30 years of age were studied based on their availability. The subjective feelings of alienation, coping strategies, defense style and expression of aggression were evaluated by Dean's Alienation Scale (DAS), Coping Checklist (CCl-1) and Defense Style Questionnaire-40 (DSQ-40) and Rosenzweig Picture-frustration Study (RPFS) respectively. Mann–Whitney U was computed to assess out whether there is any significant difference between the two groups with respect to alienation, coping strategy, defense style and expression of aggression. The transgender and the non-transgender group - differ significantly from each other with respect to their subject on feelings of alienation across all domains (i.e. powerlessness, normlessness and social isolation), coping strategies, namely, emotion focused coping strategy and problem and emotion focused coping strategy, defense style, namely, immature defenses, group conformity rating and across all domains of direction of aggression, namely, extraggression, introgression and impgression Top Keywords Transgender Women, Alienation, Coping Strategy, Defense Style, Expression of Aggression. Top |