Expanding schema conceptualisation and assessment: Towards a richer understanding of adaptive and maladaptive functioning

Steffen, Patrick R.; Elliott, Charles H.; Lassen, Maureen K.; Olsen, Joseph A.; Smith, Laura

doi:10.1111/ajpy.12141

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“…Modifications indices suggested that some schemas should directly (and not indirectly via automatic thoughts) predict assertive behavior and social anxiety; no pathway was suggested between assertive behavior and social anxiety. This direct impact of schemas in affect and behavior is in line with the theorization of schemas in relation to both adaptive and maladaptive functioning (Steffen, Elliot, Lassen, Olsen, & Smith, 2016). Hence, those modification indices were included in the model.…”

Section: Structural Equation Modellingsupporting

confidence: 65%

Revisiting a taxonomy of social anxiety and assertiveness in adolescence: evidence for a cognitive approach

Vagos

Pereira

2020

Curr Psychol

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This research explored a taxonomy combining social anxiety and assertiveness and further applied a cognitive approach for predicting those constructs in adolescents. Participants were 679 adolescents (mean age = 16.68; 61.3% female) who selfreported on interpersonal assertive schemas, negative automatic social thoughts, social anxiety, and assertive behavior. Social anxiety and assertive behavior were grouping variables in a cluster analysis, resulting in three groups: assertive, indifferent, and socially anxious adolescents. The moderator role of the groups was then studied within a structural equation model proposing both social anxiety and assertive behavior to be predicted by cognitive schemas and automatic thoughts. This model fitted all three groups, portraying assertive behavior as directly predicted by cognitive structures whereas social anxiety was directly dependent on automatic thoughts. Assertive deficit and social anxiety seem to co-occur and fit within a theoretical and practical cognitive approach, demanding careful consideration of specific symptomology in adolescent social anxiety.

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Section: Structural Equation Modellingsupporting

confidence: 65%

Revisiting a taxonomy of social anxiety and assertiveness in adolescence: evidence for a cognitive approach

Vagos

Pereira

2020

Curr Psychol

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“…Although the present study focused on self-schema content, future studies should examine self-schema content and organization and employ indirect self-schema measures (e.g., psychological distance scaling task [PDST; Dozois and Dobson 2001;youth version Lumley et al 2012], self-referent encoding task [SRET; Kuiper and Derry 1982]), and determine whether these facets of self-schemas similarly or differentially predict youths' functioning. Finally, future studies ought to consider gradations of selfschemas (i.e., moderate vs. extreme) given the presence of extreme positive cognitions may not necessarily incite adaptive outcomes (Gruman et al 2017;Steffen et al 2016;Vazquez 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Longitudinal Stability and Predictive Capability of Positive and Negative Self-Schemas in a Multi-Informant Study of Child and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms and Life Satisfaction

Cherry

Lumley

2019

Int J Appl Posit Psychol

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Research has established that negative self-schemas are potent risk factors for depressive symptoms among children and adolescents. However, few studies have examined whether positive self-schemas provide unique information about children and adolescents' depressive symptoms and their well-being. Further, examining the stability of cognitive content during this developmental transition is also relevant. Informed by positive (clinical) psychology and cognitive-developmental frameworks, this study examined a) the longitudinal stability of children and adolescents' self-schemas and b) the prospective associations of positive and negative self-schemas to children and adolescents' depressive symptoms and life satisfaction in a community sample of 139 children and adolescents (M age = 11.20, SD = 1.21) and their parent/guardian. Results provided preliminary evidence that negative and positive self-schemas exhibit stability over time. Positive self-schemas also predicted unique variance in children and adolescents' depressive symptoms, above and beyond negative self-schemas. Only negative self-schemas were uniquely associated with children and adolescents' life satisfaction over time. These results suggest there may be utility in incorporating positive selfschemas into models of child and adolescent depression. As well, these results may provide important information regarding appropriate timing for the prevention of child and adolescent depression and bolstering of well-being.

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“…Indeed, although research suggests that negative affect is a distinct entity from positive affect, positive affect may buffer the effects of negative affect (Fredrickson & Levenson, 1998; Fredrickson et al, 2000). Moreover, research indicates that the employment of multiple cognitive regulation strategies, or cognitive flexibility, may be more protective against psychopathology than effectively engaging in only one strategy (Davis & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2000; Fredrickson, 2004; Steffen, Elliott, Lassen, Olsen, & Smith, 2016), suggesting that it is important to understand which strategies co-occur and whether there may be specific combinations of strategies that promote mental health. Thus, examining trait affect and affective regulation styles in concert will allow us to better understand their interplay and how they manifest within individuals.…”

Section: Current Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Latent classes of trait affect and cognitive affective regulation strategies are associated with depression, non-suicidal self-injury, and well-being

Burke

McArthur

Daryanani

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Journal of Affective Disorders

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Expanding schema conceptualisation and assessment: Towards a richer understanding of adaptive and maladaptive functioning

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Revisiting a taxonomy of social anxiety and assertiveness in adolescence: evidence for a cognitive approach

Revisiting a taxonomy of social anxiety and assertiveness in adolescence: evidence for a cognitive approach

The Longitudinal Stability and Predictive Capability of Positive and Negative Self-Schemas in a Multi-Informant Study of Child and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms and Life Satisfaction

Latent classes of trait affect and cognitive affective regulation strategies are associated with depression, non-suicidal self-injury, and well-being

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