Do Early Maladaptive Schemas Mediate the Relationship Between Childhood Experiences and Avoidant Personality Disorder Features? A Preliminary Investigation in a Non-Clinical Sample

Carr, Steven; Francis, Andrew

doi:10.1007/s10608-009-9250-1

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“…Schemas act as filters through which individuals order, interpret and predict the world. EMSs have been shown to mediate the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and adult psychopathology (Carr and Francis, 2010). Because EMSs are considered ego-syntonic, therapists believe that clients with chronic difficulties lack the motivation to change them.…”

Section: Background and Theorymentioning

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Schema Therapy for Emotional Dysregulation: Theoretical Implication and Clinical Applications

Dadomo

Grecucci

Giardini³

et al. 2016

Front. Psychol.

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The term emotional dysregulation refers to an impaired ability to regulate unwanted emotional states. Scientific evidence supports the idea that emotional dysregulation underlies several psychological disorders as, for example: personality disorders, bipolar disorder type II, interpersonal trauma, anxiety disorders, mood disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder. Emotional dysregulation may derive from early interpersonal traumas in childhood. These early traumatic events create a persistent sensitization of the central nervous system in relation to early life stressing events. For this reason, some authors suggest a common endophenotypical origin across psychopathologies. In the last 20 years, cognitive behavioral therapy has increasingly adopted an interactive-ontogenetic view to explain the development of disorders associated to emotional dysregulation. Unfortunately, standard Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) methods are not useful in treating emotional dysregulation. A CBT-derived new approach called Schema Therapy (ST), that integrates theory and techniques from psychodynamic and emotion focused therapy, holds the promise to fill this gap in cognitive literature. In this model, psychopathology is viewed as the interaction between the innate temperament of the child and the early experiences of deprivation or frustration of the subject’s basic needs. This deprivation may lead to develop early maladaptive schemas (EMS), and maladaptive Modes. In the present paper we point out that EMSs and Modes are associated with either dysregulated emotions or with dysregulatory strategies that produce and maintain problematic emotional responses. Thanks to a special focus on the therapeutic relationship and emotion focused-experiential techniques, this approach successfully treats severe emotional dysregulation. In this paper, we make several comparisons between the main ideas of ST and the science of emotion regulation, and we present how to conceptualize pathological phenomena in terms of failed regulation and some of the ST strategies and techniques to foster successful regulation in patients.

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Section: Background and Theorymentioning

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Schema Therapy for Emotional Dysregulation: Theoretical Implication and Clinical Applications

Dadomo

Grecucci

Giardini³

et al. 2016

Front. Psychol.

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“…In another study, Carr and Francis ( 2010 ) tested the hypothesis that early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) mediate the relationship between retrospectively reported Theoretical Assumptions childhood experiences and avoidant personality disorder (AVPD) symptoms. In this study, 178 nonclinical participants completed questionnaires measuring childhood experiences, EMSs, and AVPD symptoms.…”

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Sweeney

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“…Retrospective reports on childhood maltreatment were found to be associated with all EMSs within the Disconnection or Rejection domain apart from the abandonment schema (Carr & Francis, 2010). In this sense, the cognitive schemas could be related with trauma during childhood (Gibb, 2002) and future adaptive problems in adulthood (O'Dougherty-Wright, Crawford, & Del Castillo, 2009).…”

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Maladaptive Schemas as Mediators in the Relationship Between Child Sexual Abuse and Displaced Aggression

Estévez

Ozerinjauregi

Herrero-Fernández

2016

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse

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Child sexual abuse is one of the most serious forms of abuse due to the psychological consequences that persist even into adulthood. Expressions of anger among child sexual abuse survivors remain common even years after the event. While child sexual abuse has been extensively studied, the expression of displaced aggression has been studied less. Some factors, such as the maladaptive early schemas, might account for this deficiency. The objective of this study was to analyze the relationships between child sexual abuse, displaced aggression, and these schemas according to gender and determine if these early schemas mediate the relationship between child sexual abuse and displaced aggression. A total of 168 Spanish subjects who were victims of child sexual abuse completed measures of childhood trauma, displaced aggression, and early maladaptive schemas. The results depict the relationship between child sexual abuse, displaced aggression, and early maladaptive schemas. Women scored higher than men in child sexual abuse, emotional abuse, disconnection or rejection and impaired autonomy. Mediational analysis found a significant mediation effect of disconnection or rejection on the relationship between child sexual abuse and displaced aggression; however, impaired autonomy did not mediate significantly.

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Do Early Maladaptive Schemas Mediate the Relationship Between Childhood Experiences and Avoidant Personality Disorder Features? A Preliminary Investigation in a Non-Clinical Sample

Cited by 41 publications

References 87 publications

Schema Therapy for Emotional Dysregulation: Theoretical Implication and Clinical Applications

Schema Therapy for Emotional Dysregulation: Theoretical Implication and Clinical Applications

Models of Psychopathology

Maladaptive Schemas as Mediators in the Relationship Between Child Sexual Abuse and Displaced Aggression

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