The relationship between maladaptive schemas, perfectionism, and self-expression with students' tendency to substance abuse

The present study investigated the relationship between maladaptive schemas, perfectionism, and self-expression with a tendency to substance abuse in students.

The present study was a descriptive correlational study, and the statistical population included all students of Islamic Azad University, Saveh Branch, in 2015. The statistical population included 8754 people, in which 360 people were selected using stratified random sampling method and based on the Morgan table. Then, they were examined by the questionnaire of Jung (1990) maladaptive schemas, Frost (1990) perfectionism, Gay self-expression (1975), and Substance abuse trend questionnaire of Farhad et al. (2006).

Findings showed that there is a positive relationship between early maladaptive schemas with a tendency to substance abuse and perfectionism, and there is a significant negative relationship between self-expression and a tendency to substance abuse among students. Regression coefficients also showed that the variable of perfectionism with a beta coefficient of 0.34, the variable of early maladaptive schemas in the field of disturbed constraint with a beta coefficient of 0.29, and the variable of early maladaptive schemas in terms of disconnection and exclusion with a beta coefficient of 0.24 can positively predict students' tendency to substance abuse. And the variable of self-expression with a beta coefficient of 0.19 can negatively and significantly predict students' tendency to substance abuse.

The results showed that the variables of perfectionism, early maladaptive schemas in the field of disrupted constraints, early maladaptive schemas in the field of disconnection and exclusion can predict the tendency to drug abuse.