Comparison of Emotional Schemas and Study of the Relationship between ‎anxiety, worry and Emotional Schema in Patients with Obsessive-compulsive ‎Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder and in Normal Group ‎

The goal of this research was to compare the emotional Schemas and to study the relationship between anxiety، worry and emotional Schema in Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive disorder، Social anxiety disorder and in normal group. The sample of the study included 90 Participants (30 patients with obsessive–Compulsive disorder، 30 patients with social anxiety disorder، and 30 normal subjects). Participants completed Schemas Scale Leahy (LESS)، Pennsylvania State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ)، Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)، Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28). People with social anxiety disorder and obsessive–compulsive disorder had significant difference compared to the normal group in the schemas of the comprehensibility، control، consensus، guilt and rumination. However، in the schema of guilt those with obsessive-compulsive disorder were significantly different from those afflicted with social anxiety disorder. Some aspects of emotional schemas in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and social anxiety were different from the normal group and the anxiety and worry were associated with some aspects of the emotional schemas.