Study of the Structural Relations of Early Maladaptive Schemas, Personality Factors and Marital Adjustment

Understanding the factors that set the stage for the development of marital adjustment, play an important role in reducing marital conflict and divorce in the society. The purpose of this study was to predict marital adjustment through personality factors and early maladaptive schemas. This study was conducted by a correlational method and was the kind of structural equation modeling. The study population consisted of all parents of students in Kamyaran, Iran in 2014. The sample consisted of 500 parents (250 couples) who were selected by two-stage cluster sampling method and completed personality factors (NEO-FFI), early maladaptive schemas (YSQ-SF) and marital adjustment (RDAS) questionnaire. Data were analyzed using AMOS software. Findings indicated a positive and significant relationship between marital adjustment and personality factors (except neuroticism) and a negative relationship between marital adjustment and early maladaptive schemas. Also, results showed that there was a positive relationship between neuroticism as well as maladaptive schemas and negative relationship between other personality factors and maladaptive schemas. Results suggest that personality factors and early maladaptive schemas could be regarded as a good predictor of marital adjustment. Using these two variables in predicting marital adjustment, compatibility of couples could be enhanced in marriage consultation trainings.