Predicting early maladaptive schemas based on childhood affective maltreatment and parenting styles

The purpose of this study is predicting early maladaptive schemas based on childhood affective maltreatment and parenting styles. This investigation is descriptive and was done in the framework of correlational design. Purposeful population includes all people aged 18-50 years old. The sample of this study is 266 persons who were chosen in access (not random). Participants completed The Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ), Baumrind Parenting Styles Questionnaire and the Lifetime of Experiences Questionnaire (LEQ) voluntarily. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and step by step multiple regression analysis was used for analyzing data. Obtained data were analyzed by SPSS-25 software. Based on Pearson correlation, schemas of defectiveness/shame (0.54), social isolation/alienation (0.52) and emotional deprivation (0.53) which placed in disconnection and rejection area, have the most correlation and relation with childhood affective maltreatment. According to the findings acquired by step by step multiple regression analysis, childhood affective maltreatment (emotional abuse) and Parenting styles (arbitrary) have the most power in predicting schemas of disconnection and rejection area that respectively predict 26/8 and 3/8 percent of this area and these two variables together predict 30/6 percent of schemas of disconnection and rejection area (P<0.05). Affective maltreatments in childhood and maladaptive parenting styles play an important role in determining adults’ personality because affective maltreatment in childhood and parenting styles especially arbitrary interact together in the formation of early maladaptive schemas especially schemas of rejection area and can increase or decrease harmful effects of each other.