Prediction model of family performance based on behavioral brain systems in women referred to counseling centers: the mediating role of early maladaptive schemas

The family is composed of members who each have a role in this and the woman is the most effective member of the family who manages the family and its upbringing and development as a social institution and thus plays the most fundamental role. The aim of this study was to predict family performance based on behavioral brain systems mediated by early maladaptive schemas of women referring to counseling centers. The present research method was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population of the present study included married women in District 1 of Tehran in 2019, from which 350 people were selected by convenience sampling. The tools of the present study include the McMaster Family Assessment Device (Epstein et al., 1983); the Scale of Behavioral Inhibition / Activation Systems (Carver & White, 1994), and the Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form (Young,