Comparison of Early Maladaptive Schemas in patients with industrial and traditional substance use disorders

The aim of this study was to compare early maladaptive schemas in patients with traditional and industrial Substance use disorder. 98 patients with industrial and traditional substance use disorders (two groups of 49 persons) Addiction clinics in the city of Tabriz by purposive sampling, through structured clinical interview and according to the information in the file to determine the used drug type they were selected. For data collection, the short form of the Young Schema Questionnaire (SF-YSQ) were used. The results showed that between two groups of patients there was a significant difference in the early schema and scores of patients with industrial Substance use disorder in the areas of cuts and exclusion, impaired limits and in the scheme of abandonment / instability and emotional inhibition significantly higher than patients with traditional Substance use disorder. The early maladaptive schema could be an important target for therapeutic intervention in terms of the type of substance consumed.