Comparison of Early Maladaptive Schemas and Autobiographical Memory in People with Depression, Anxiety Disorders, and Normal Persons

The aim of the present study was to compare primary maladaptive schemas and historical memory in people with depressive, anxiety, and normal disorders. The study was practical and causal-comparative. The research population included all people with anxiety and depression disorders who presented to psychological clinics in the 5th district of Tehran in 2019-2020. Therefore, 90 people were selected for this research with three variables (30 people with depressive disorders, 30 people with anxiety disorders, and 30 normal people, 51 females, 39 males). The research instruments included the Autobiographical Memory Questionnaire (AMI) and Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form (YSQ-SF). Data analysis was done through Student's t-test and analysis of variance in SPSS26 software. The results showed that the average difference of all five domains of primary maladaptive schemas in depressed and anxious participants compared with normal participants was significant at the 0.01 level, and these two groups had higher mean scores in all five domains of primary maladaptive schemas compared with normal people. they got The difference in the mean score of event memory in the two groups of normal and anxious participants is significant at the 0.01 level, and normal people scored higher average scores in this component compared with anxious participants.