Psihološka Nefleksibilnost Kao Medijator Odnosa Između Ranih Maladaptivnih Shema I Manifestacija Depresivnosti, Anksioznosti I Stresa

Abstract

Although the link between Early Maladaptive Schemas and many psychopathological manifestations has been confirmed, there is still not enough research examining the mechanism by which this link is realized. The aim of this study was to examine whether psychological inflexibility could be a mediator of the relationship between early maladaptive schemas grouped in schema domains and problems in current functioning, manifested through depression, anxiety and stress symptoms. Among the instruments used were the Young’s Schema Questionnaire, the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire and Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales. The sample included 320 subjects (Nfemales = 215; M = 33.5; SD = 9.6). The results indicate significant connections of psychological inflexibility with all scheme domains and all criterion variables, with this connection being the strongest in relation to depression (r = .74, p < .01) and autonomy impairment domain (r = .74, p < .01). Schema domains are important predictors of criterion variables, provided that the highest percentage of explained variance is in relation to depression. Psychological inflexibility has been shown to be a partial mediator of all relations between all schema domains and manifestations of depression, anxiety and stress. Although schema domains still have a significant direct effect on psychopathological manifestations, in the case of impaired limits when it comes to anxiety (b = .045; p<.05, 95% BCa CI [.03, .05]) and depression (b = .06, p<.05, 95% BCa CI [.04, .07]) the difference between the indirect and direct effect is most evident, while in the case of stress the greatest difference between the effects is in relation to the domain of autonomy impairment (b = .07, p < .05, 95% BCa CI [.05, .08]). The implications for the integration of schema therapy and third wave cognitive-behavioral therapy are discussed. Keywords: early maladaptive schemas, schema domains, psychological flexibility, depression, stress, anxiety

Being Flexible in Zuckerman’s Alternative Personality Space

“…Scale means, standard deviations, skewness, kurtosis, and Cronbach's α values are listed in Table 1 (for the descriptive statistics for the ZKA-PQ SF facets, please see Supplement Table A1). Also reported in Krnetić and Vujaković (2021). The ZKA-PQ SF scales showed acceptable internal consistency estimates, but the values were lower than those reported in previous studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Aluja et al, 2018).…”

“…In addition to demographic questions (self-report biological sex and age), individuals completed the 10-item version of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II; Bond et al, 2011), which assesses psychological flexibility. The AAQ-II was translated into Serbian by Žuljević et al (2020) and adapted to the Bosnian and Herzegovinian culture by Krnetić and Vujaković (2021) who report that the translated scale has good psychometric characteristics. Participants respond to items using a 7-point Likert scale from 1 = not at all true to 7 = completely true (example item, "My painful experiences and memories make it difficult to live a life that I would value").…”

Early Maladaptive Schemas and the Accuracy of Facial Emotion Recognition: A Preliminary Investigation

“…A recent meta-analysis has shown that EMSs were found to have a positive association with interpersonal problems, with small to moderate effect sizes, depending on the EMS (Janovsky et al, 2020), as well as psychological inflexibility (e.g., Krnetić & Vujaković, 2021). Interpersonal problems are commonly reported features in a number of clinical disorders (e.g., Salzer et al, 2013;Uhmann et al, 2010), primarily in personality disorders (PD) (American Psychiatric Association, 2013;Salzer et al, 2013;Williams & Simms, 2015).…”