Objective: Alexithymia is recognized as a disability in explaining or understanding emotions and manifests at emotional and functional levels. This study was conducted with the aim of clarifying the role of early maladaptive schemas and attachment style in alexithymia disorder.  Methods: This research was a correlational study. In this study, 220 students of Tabriz University were selected b...

BACKGROUND Purpose of this study is comparing early maladaptive schemas which are active in patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders together, considering recent DSM-5 changes through which OCD has been placed in a separate and new diagnostic level. METHODOLOGY This research is a causal-comparative study. 151 persons were categorized in three groups of peopl...

objective: malfunction in the intimacy, marital conflict and early maladaptive schemas have always been considered as one of the principal reasons of couples’ divorce. employment of effective therapies may help in the improvement of couples’ problems and decrease of divorce. methods: the present research employed a single-subject research design and selected 3 women suing for divorce from among...

Structural Relations of Early Maladaptive Schemas to Craving in Substance-Dependent Individuals under Methadone Maintenance Treatment: The Mediating Role Self-Compassion

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...