A Comparative Study of Three Methods` Activation of Mental visualization, Imaginary Visualization and Presentation of Images in the Activation of the Abandonment Schema in People with Borderline Personality Disorder

One of the most important schemas in psychology is the abandonment scheme. Various researches have been dedicated to improving maladaptive schemas, but research has been neglected in comparing the activation of three methods of visualization, imaginary imagery, and presentation of images in activating the release scheme in people with borderline personality disorder. The aim of this study was to compare the activation efficiency of three methods of visualization, imaginative visualization and presentation of images in the activation of the abandonment scheme in subjects with borderline personality disorder. The research method was two-way factor design. The statistical population consisted of all female students of Islamic Azad University of Qom who studied at the undergraduate level in the academic year 96-95. In this way, 80 persons were selected through the questionnaire of borderline personality disorder and they were randomly assigned to three groups of experiment and control. The instruments used were borderline personality disorder, short form of Young's early maladaptive Scale and Beck Anxiety Inventory. The results of multivariate analysis of variance showed that fuzzy visualization method is more effective in activating the abandonment scheme in people with borderline personality disorder than image presentation method. This means that the imaginary imagery method can be used to improve the embedding schema.