Assessing self-schema content: The relationship of psychological needs to early maladaptive schemas, rejection sensitivity, and personality traits

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Walter Scott ◽  
Jason Tyser ◽  
Suzanna L. Penningroth ◽  
Christina Strauch
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Meneguzzo ◽  
Chiara Cazzola ◽  
Roberta Castegnaro ◽  
Francesca Buscaglia ◽  
Enrica Bucci ◽  
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Background: The literature has shown a significant association between traumatic experiences and eating psychopathology, showing a greater symptomatology in patients with trauma history. Less is known about the associations between trauma and cognitive schemas, and personality traits and the differences between childhood and adulthood trauma experiences. Thus, this paper aims to assess the clinical and psychological characteristics of eating disorder (ED) patients, looking for differences between patients without a history of trauma and patients with trauma experiences, as well as at possible differences between exposure in childhood, adulthood, or repeated events. Another aim of the paper is to evaluate the possible mediation role of cognitive schemas and personality traits in the relationship between early trauma and eating psychopathology.Methods: From January to November 2020, 115 consecutive inpatients admitted for a specific multidisciplinary ED treatment in a dedicated Unit were evaluated for trauma, differentiating between trauma occurring in childhood and adulthood. The subjects were evaluated for early maladaptive schemas (EMS), personality traits, trauma symptomatology, quality of life, and specific psychopathologies linked to EDs. Mediation analyses between childhood and adulthood trauma and eating psychopathology were performed, with EMS and personality traits as mediators.Results: Patients with a history of trauma showed higher physical and psychological symptomatology scores, with a more impaired clinical profile in patients with both childhood and adulthood trauma exposure. The mediation analysis showed a specific mediator role for the “disconnection and rejection (DR)” EMS factor in the relationship between childhood trauma (cT) and eating psychopathology.Conclusion: Trauma experiences are associated with more severe clinical symptomatology in EDs and may need a specific assessment in patients with failed outpatient standard treatments. Specific cognitive schemas linked to DR domain should be evaluated in treatments for ED patients with history of trauma due to the mediation role between trauma and eating psychopathology. The need for outcome studies about treatment approaches for ED patients with history of trauma is discussed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy M. Marengo ◽  
Jeffrey Klibert ◽  
Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling ◽  
Jacob Warren ◽  
K. Bryant Smalley

Author(s):  
Hassan Zareei Mahmoodabadi ◽  
Fateme Ghazi kermani ◽  
Mahsa Ehrampoush

Introduction: Increase of job satisfaction and reduction of job burnout are among the most challenging concepts in the field of occupation / organization. They are also considered as the basis of many policies to increase the productivity and efficiency of an organization. One of the most important causative factors of burnout is personality traits. In this context, schemas, as the personality traits described in personality development psychology, play a significant role. Therefore, investigating the relationship between these transformational patterns and occupational burnout can be considered as an essential issue in the field of occupational healthMethods: This descriptive study was conducted on 220 personnel of Public Health School in Yazd Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences. The participants were selected using simple random sampling method and the data were collected using the Maslach Job Burnout Questionnaire and the Young Short-form Short-Scale Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Spss 20 by applying the central tendency indicators, t-test, and Pearson's correlation coefficient to test the hypotheses.Results: The results of this study showed a negative but significant relationship between most of the early maladaptive schemas and the two subscales of burnout (emotional exhaustion and depersonalization). The results also showed a positive and significant relationship between the schema score of release / instability and individual performance (r = 0.206, p-value = 038.Conclusion: According to the results of our study, it can be said that some of the areas of early maladaptive schemas cause stress in the university personnel and repetition of these stresses causes burnout. Therefore, understanding these areas and planning to prevent and control them are practically required to promote organizational productivity in the field of occupational and industrial research.


2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 502-523
Author(s):  
Ali Zade-Mohammadi ◽  
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Hamid Kordestanchi Aslani ◽  

Objectives: This study aimed to examine the mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation in the relationship of early maladaptive schemas with spouse abuse. Methods: In this descriptive-correlational study, 324 married adults (226 females, 98 males) living in Tehran, Iran in 2017 were selected using a convenience sampling technique. They completed the revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS-2), the Young Scale Questionnaire-Short Form (YSQ-SF), and the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). Collected data were analyzed using Pearson correlation test and Structural Equations Modeling (SEM) in AMOS software. Results: The results of SEM showed a direct significant path from early maladaptive schemas to cognitive emotional regulation, and from cognitive emotional regulation to spouse abuse. There were also significant indirect paths from the first, second, and third domains of early maladaptive schemas to spouse abuse mediated by negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies with a path coefficients of 0.13, 0.16, and 0.13, respectively. The final structural model was a good-fitting model (X2/dF=1.595, Root Mean Square Error of Approximation = 0.045, Comparative Fit Index =0.953). Conclusion: The relationship between early maladaptive schemas and spouse abuse is not linear; it is mediated by cognitive emotion regulation.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aqsa Ameer ◽  
Farah Naz ◽  
Bushra Gul Taj ◽  
Iqra Ameer

Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of conscientiousness and extraversion personality traits on project success. The relationship is mediated by affective professional commitment, whilst the relationship between personality traits and project success is moderated by organizational project management maturity. Design/methodology/approach The deductive approach is used to achieve the objectives of this study. Data were collected through a purposive sampling technique from 250 respondents with the help of questionnaires from information technology sectors. The structural equation modelling (SEM) in partial least squares-SEM and SPSS is used to analyse the data and to examine the hypothesis. Findings The outcomes demonstrate the partial mediating impact of affective professional commitment between the relationship of conscientiousness and extraversion personalities with project success. Additionally, it proves the moderating effects of project management maturity between the relationship of conscientiousness and extraversion personalities with project success. Practical implications This study reflects that employee personality appears to be a reliable indicator of how an employee is faithful to his profession. This faithfulness or duty decides the employee’s execution in terms of offering a successful project. Thus, achieving employee commitment needs to be done by completing the project successfully by the organizations in the presence of project management maturity systems. Originality/value It is the first study of its kind to provide experimental proof of the impact of a manager’s personality traits on project success in the presence of affective professional commitment (mediator) and organizational project management maturity (moderator).


2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-349
Author(s):  
Katelyn Phillips ◽  
Robert Brockman ◽  
Phoebe E. Bailey ◽  
Ian I. Kneebone

AbstractBackground:The relevance of schema theory to psychopathology, in particular personality disorder, in younger adults is established. Investigations into the relevance of schema theory to older adults, however, is highly limited.Aims:To consider the relationship of schema modes to psychopathology in older adults and establish whether maladaptive schema modes are associated with unmet needs and that this relationship is mediated by the healthy adult mode of responding in this population.Method:One hundred and four older adults were recruited from an established database. Participants completed questionnaires assessing psychopathology, schema modes (YAMI: Young-Atkinson Mode Inventory) and basic psychological needs (BPNS: Basic Psychological Needs Scale – autonomy, competence and relatedness). Ninety-four responses were included after applying exclusion criteria.Results:The healthy adult schema mode was found to be associated with reduced psychopathology, and maladaptive child modes (angry and vulnerable child) to increased psychopathology. The healthy adult schema mode mediated the relationship between maladaptive child modes and needs satisfaction.Conclusions:As predicted by schema theory, the presence of one of the maladaptive child modes makes it difficult for an older individual to have their needs met, but the presence of healthy adult mode works to support this process.


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