Ilmia Hidayatul, Insani Primastuty
People who live in a society must interact with other people around them and experience many events in their life. Interaction and experience that people have in their daily life can shape their personality. In the process of personality development, people face many events in their life whether is good or bad and they will feel anxious when they face bad events. People who cannot handle their anxiety will try to defense themselves to reduce their anxiety by using defense mechanisms. The phenomena of defense mechanisms can be seen in Greg Heffley as the main character in film entitled Diary of a Wimpy Kid. This study aims to reveal how defense mechanisms employed by Greg Heffley because of the anxiety that he feels while he interacts with certain people around him. This study uses psychological approach to discover how defense mechanisms employed by Greg Heffley. Greg Heffley as the main character always shows his anxiety because he always gets problems with certain people around him, such as Rowley Jefferson, Patty Farrell, Rodrick Heffley, Manny Heffley, Quentin, Mrs. Irvine and Fregley. The problems with them appear when Greg Heffley tries to achieve his goal, that is to be voted in a class favorite. To reduce his anxiety, he tries to defense himself by using defense mechanisms. There are five defense mechanisms used by Greg Heffley such as denial, rationalization, displacement, sublimation and introjection. Then, the anxiety that occurred to him are realistic anxiety and moralistic anxiety. © Journal of Language and Literature.
Literature and English Department, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, East Java, Indonesia
