Background: Self-esteem is a stable sense of personal worthiness. There is insufficient evidence from the available research to fully determine the relationship between self-esteem and early trauma. Objectives: This is a correlational study aims to investigate the relationship between early traumas as a predictor of negative selfesteem by controlling the effect of maladaptive schemas in 11-13 year-old-student sample. Methods: 292 people (201 females, 91 males) with mean age of 12.33 were selected via multistage random sampling. Participants completed questionnaire on children's depression inventory (CDI), childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ), schema inventory for children (SIC) and provided demographic information. Analyzing data was done using correlation and stepwise regression methods. Results:The results showed that emotional neglect and physical abuse are the best predictors of negative self-esteem. Additionally, the results revealed no evidence of maladaptive schemas mediating the relationship between early trauma and negative self-esteem. Conclusions: In general, the findings showed that emotional neglect and physical abuse are the best predictors of negative selfesteem in children and explain a considerable variance of survival index. Our findings also demonstrate that maladaptive schemas do not have any significant effect on the relationship between trauma and negative self-esteem.
Background: Depressive disorder spectrum has been shown to be a significant mental health issue for school-age children. Yet little work has been done to investigate the predictive factors correlated with this early form of depression. Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the predictive role of early trauma and maladaptive schema in dimensions of depression in 11 -13 year-old students. Materials and Methods: Multi-stage random sampling was used to select 292 school-age children (201 females, 91 males) with mean age 12.33. All subjects were asked to complete children's depression inventory (CDI), childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ) and schemas inventory for children (SIC). The analysis of data was done using canonical correlation. Results: Structural coefficients showed that the pattern of high scores in early trauma and maladaptive schema correlate with the pattern of high scores in depression dimensions. Therefore, the findings indicate that the combination of low early trauma and maladaptive schema can probably decrease the likelihood of depression. Conclusions: In general, the findings of this study showed that early trauma and maladaptive schema can predict depression in children and explain a considerable variance of survival index.
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