According to cognitive theory, an important factor in borderline personality disorder (BPD) is hypervigilance. The aim of the present study was to test whether BPD patients show schema-related biases, and to explore relations with childhood trauma, schemas, and BPD symptoms. Sixteen BPD patients were compared with 18 patients with a cluster C personality disorder, 16 patients with an axis I dis...

abstract aim and background: primary maladaptive schemas are  main pattern of many personality disorders, comparison of primary maladaptive schemas can prepare a strong credit for schematherapy. the purpose of the present study was to determine the dominant schemas and comparison of early maladaptive schemas in avoidant personality disorders patients and normal individuals.   methods and materi...

The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the multiple relationships between early maladaptive schemas, parenting styles and coping styles with anxiety. Therefore, a sample consisting of 200 students, from Islamic Azad University of Karaj, were selected by multistage cluster sampling method. The research instruments were Beck anxiety inventory (1988), short form of Young early ma...

Depressed individuals hold negative schemas and experience less positivity in their lives. Network analyses suggest that this may be due to connectivity among concepts within depressed individuals’ schemas. However, the extent which interacts with negativity persons’ has not been thoroughly assessed. Thus, we examined interactive components of Fear Happiness Scale, a construct examines emotions...

Suicide risk is thought to increase with a greater potential for activation of suicide-related schemas. Suicide schemas are less likely to be activated with reductions of emotional range associated with certain negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The study tested whether suicide risk would increase in patients with recent onset schizophrenia with increased potential for suicide schema activatio...

objective: early maladaptive schemas are deep feelings or patterns that are formed in childhood and recur later in their lifetime. young has classified these schemas. the purpose of the present study was to validate the young early maladaptive schema questionnaire (yemsq) for early maladaptive schemas in a group of university students. methods: five hundred and seventy nine students were random...

BACKGROUND There is broad consensus that the eating disorders of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa stem from fundamental disturbances in identity development, but theoretically based empirical support is lacking. OBJECTIVE To extend work on the identity impairment model by investigating the relationship between organizational properties of the self-concept and change in disordered eating b...