Prediction of psychological security of secondary school students based on childhood trauma and cognitive errors

The present study was conducted with the aim of predicting the psychological security of secondary school students based on childhood trauma and cognitive errors. The research method was a descriptive correlation. The statistical population included students in the second grade of high school in Behshahr in the academic year 2021-2022. The sample size was 421 people who were selected by random sampling method. Research tools include the psychological security questionnaire (PSI) Maslow's (1942), the Childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ) Bernstein et al. (2003), and the cognitive errors questionnaire (CDQ) Abdullahzadeh and Salar (2009). The results of the simultaneous entry regression test showed that among the research variables emotional abuse (P=0.001), physical abuse (P=0.001), sexual abuse (P=0.001), sexual neglect (P=0.001), and cognitive errors (P=0.001) predictors are significant for psychological security, but emotional neglect was not a significant predictor for students' mental security (P=0.96). Also, the results showed that the predictor variables were able to predict 0.45 of the variance of the psychological security variable of the second-level secondary school students. The result of this research shows that attention to childhood trauma and cognitive errors by psychologists and school counselors can help to explain the psychological security of students.