Marital Commitment Prediction Based on Early Maladaptive Schemas (Disconnection / Rejection Domain): The Mediating Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Smart Social Networks addiction

‎The present study aimed to examine a structural model of marital commitment based on early ‎maladaptive schemas in the domain of disconnection/rejection and mediated by positive and negative cognitive ‎emotion regulation strategies and smartphone-based social network addiction among married people. ‎‎

‎ This research is a correlational study. For this purpose, a sample of 200 people was selected by ‎the Convenience/Accidental Sampling method from married men and women living in Karaj, and 177 of them were ‎included in the analysis. The Marital Commitment Questionnaire (MCQ), the Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ-‎SF), the Cognitive Emotion Regulation, and the Social Network Addiction Questionnaires were administered to ‎collect data. Pearson correlation method and Structural equation modeling were used to analyze by SPSS -26 and ‎Smart PLS-2 software. ‎‎

The results from the structural model analysis revealed that schemas of disconnection/rejection Domain with ‎the mediating role of positive strategies for cognitive emotion regulation and addiction to social networks can ‎predict changes in marital commitment at a rate of 40% (R2 = 0.40, P <0.001). Also, the model fit indices (GOF = ‎‎0.27) indicate the desired quality of the model. ‎‎

The present study suggests that early maladaptive schemas challenge couples' marital commitment ‎through cognitive emotion regulation and the‏ ‏overuse of smartphone social networks.  However, more studies are ‎needed to confirm or reject these results.‎‎