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Aim and Background: Considering to adverse consequences of infidelity on couples well-being and longevity of marital relationships, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between love schemas and Justifications for extramarital involvement and affairs in married women. Method and Materials: This was a descriptive-correlation study and the samples included 250 married women who were randomly selected among clients of counseling and cultural centers in Isfahan. The participants completed the Love Schema Scale (LS) and Justifications for Extramarital Involvement Questionnaire (JEIQ). Data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and Scheff&eacute;&#039;s post-hoc analysis. Findings: There was a relationship between love schemas and justifications for extramarital involvement, and significant differences were found in justification for extramarital involvement between love schemas (P < 0.001). In general, women with the secure type reported the least endorsement for all the aspects of justification for extramarital involvement (P <0.001). Conclusions: The results of this study provided exprimental support for utility of model of love schemas in intimate relationships, and indicated the importance of considering the role of love schemas on possibility of extramarital involvement that may have useful implications for determining the couple therapy interventions in this area.

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Aim and Background: Using a correlational method, the present research was done to study the inter-relations between early maladaptive schemas and five main factors of personality traits. Method and Materials: The statistical population consisted of bachelor&rsquo;s, master&rsquo;s, and doctoral degrees students of the University of Tehran from which a sample group of 200-subject (100 males and 100 females) was selected through available sampling method. Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form (YSQ-SF) and revised Five-Factor Inventory of personality (NEO-FFI) questionnaires were used as the tools of the study while Pearson correlation and canonical correlation tests were used for the data analysis. Findings: The findings suggested that personality trait of neuroticism and maladaptive schema of abandonment/instability had the most prominent role in the first canonical root. Maladaptive schema of social isolation/alienation and personality trait of agreement, and maladaptive schema of mistrust/abuse and personality trait of conscientiousness had the most prominent role in the second and third canonical roots, respectively. Conclusions: According to results, it can be concluded that there was a statistically significant convergence and overlap between the early maladaptive schemas and personality dimensions.

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Abstract Aim and Background: Early maladaptive schemas are assumed to be a disrupting factor for quality of life. Yet, the mechanism of this vulnerability is not well known. The purpose of this study was to investigate mediating effect of coping strategies on the relationship between early maladaptive schemas in domain of disconnection and rejection and mental quality of life. Methods and Materials: The present study was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population was consisting of males and females who were 20 to 35 years old and they were residents of Isfahan in year 1390. 245 people were selected as the sample by availability method of sampling. They completed the Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form (YSQ-SF), Coping Inventory for Stressful Situation (CISS) and WHOQOL-BREF Quality of life Questionnaire. Data were analyzed by using path analysis with SPSS 18 and LISREL 8.5. Findings: The path analysis indicated that emotion-focused strategy is the mediator between emotional deprivation schema and mental quality of life (direct effect = -0.11, indirect effect = -0.07, P< 0.05) and between abandonment schema and mental quality of life (direct effect = -0.09, indirect effect = -0.04, P< 0.05) Conclusions: Coping strategies are mediator in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and mental quality of life. Therefore, modification of coping strategies can improve mental quality of life in people who have early maladaptive schemas.

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Abstract Aim and Background: Primary maladaptive schemas are&nbsp; main pattern of many personality disorders, comparison of primary maladaptive schemas can prepare a strong credit for schematherapy. The purpose of the present study was to determine the dominant schemas and comparison of early maladaptive schemas in avoidant personality disorders patients and normal individuals. &nbsp; Methods and Materials: In this cross sectional study, 90 &nbsp;avoidant personality disorders patients & normal individuals have been chosen (45 in each group). Collecting information tool was the short form of the Young Schema Questionnaire and Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory. After collecting information, data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance Findings: Our findings indicated that there was a significant difference between early maladaptive schemas in avoidant personality disorders patients and normal individuals. Also, The avoidant personality disorders group had significantly higher scores on most maladaptive schemas with the Disconnection and Rejection, Impaired Autonomy, Impaired Limits, Over-Vigilance (P<0.001) and Other- Directedness (P=0.007) as compared to the control group. &nbsp; Conclusions: This study showed that the early maladaptive schemas are inefficient on the avoidant personality disorders patients. With the identification early maladaptive schemas before getting an avoidant personality disorder and Measurement of the schemas, can be done an appropriate intervention strategies to reduce the scheme. &nbsp;

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Abstract Aim and Background: Possible Selves are temporary self- concepts that individual desires to become and fears for becoming. Schema and parenting styles affect development of possible Selves. These desires and fears are important in individual&#039;s motives. This research aimed to determine relationship of Parenting Styles and Schema with Possible Selves in Students. Methods and Materials: methodology was correlation. 94 students were selected by multiple cluster sampling thorough students of Azad Islamic university, Qzvin branch. Data were collected by the questionnaires of Bamrind,s parenting styles, Young,s schema and&nbsp; Rogers,s self- concept and analyzed by multiple regression Findings: The findings indicated that parenting Style of authoritative and schema of Self-sacrifice and Emotional deprivation predict Possible Selves (P<0.05). In addition, findings showed that parenting style of authoritative (%8/6) and Schema of Self-sacrifice (%10.7) explain possible selves (p<0.01). Conclusions: The results provide some evidence that parenting styles and early maladaptive schema differently affect possible selves by mediating social- cultural norms and parental factors. Therefore, in order to enhance efficient Possible Selves of individuals was recommended to recover parenting style of authoritative and scheme of self-sacrifice. &nbsp;

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Abstract Aim and Background: the aim of this study was to evaluate effectiveness of schema therapy in reducing symptoms and adjusting early maladaptive schemas in patients with bipolar disorder. The purpose was to identify patient’s maladaptive schemas and attempt to modify or change them. Methods and Materials: Subjects included 30 patients, 10 men and 20 women that were chosen by convenience sampling from visitors of Nour Medical Center, two mental health clinics in Isfahan and Baran ‘e’ Mehr counselling center in Shahin Shahr. They were diagnosed with bipolar disorder (type I or II) by a psychiatrist using DSM-IV-TR and receiving medical treatment, were randomly put in two groups. Test group received medical treatment with schema therapy and the control group received only medical treatment. Young mania rating scale (YMRS), bipolar depression rating scale (BDRS) and Young schema questionnaire (YSQ3) were used before and after treatment. Data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance and covariance using SPSS 18.0. Findings: Controlling the covariate variable, differences between two groups after the intervention were significant for all three variables of symptoms of mania and depression and early maladaptive schemas (P<0.01). Conclusions: schema therapy as an adjuvant psychological treatment with medication can be effective in reducing symptoms and adjusting the early maladaptive schemas in patients with bipolar disorder, therefore providing regular protocols for schema therapy and adding it to medical treatment is suggested.  

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Aim and Background: Stress resulting from treatment in patients undergoing hemodialysis will cause psychological problems. Maladaptive schemas are important in the development of psychological problems and the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on them has been approved. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of ACT on modification of early maladaptive schemas in patients undergoing hemodialysis in Isfahan, Iran, in 2015. Methods and Materials: This clinical trial was conducted with a control group. For the purpose of this study, 30 patients undergoing hemodialysis in Zahra Hospital in Isfahan were selected through convenience sampling and divided into control and experimental groups. The two groups were matched in terms of sex, education, and marital status. The data collection tool was the Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form (YSQ-SF). A pretest was performed before the intervention, and posttest was conducted after 10 sessions (2 hours) of ACT. Findings: Repeated measures ANOVA showed that after the initial implementation of ACT sessions, a significant difference was observed in the experimental group in terms of maladaptive schemas. It was found that ACT was affective on the modification of early maladaptive schemas (disconnection and rejection, impaired autonomy and performance, impaired limits, other-directedness, overvigilance and inhibition) in patients undergoing hemodialysis (P < 0.001). Conclusions: The findings indicate that ACT can be used to reduce early maladaptive schemas, and thus, psychological problems in patients undergoing hemodialysis.

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Aim and Background: Schemas are defined as organized elements of reactions and experiences in the past that form an enduring body of knowledge so that they could influence and evaluate later perceptions. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of early cognitive schemas on narcissism trait. Methods and Materials: This study was performed on 360 students living in dormitories of Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran, who were selected via random sampling method. The Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI-40) and Schema Questionnaire-Short Form (SQ-SF) were used to obtain the data. Data was analyzed using Pearson correlation and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Findings: Schemas of emotional deprivation, mistrust, defectiveness, unrelenting standards, entitlement (P = 0.010) and undeveloped self (P = 0.050) had a significant positive correlation with narcissism and subjugation schema had a significant negative correlation with it. Also, results of the regression analysis indicated that schemas of defectiveness, entitlement, emotional deprivation, subjugation, mistrust (P = 0.010), and unrelenting standards and undeveloped self (P = 0.050) had significant role in predicting narcissism (R 2 = 0.57) in order of importance. Conclusions: Early maladaptive schemas could be considered as the basic cognitive structures that help to have a better understanding of how people with narcissistic personality characteristics perceive their social environment.

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Aim and Background: Social anxiety disorder is the most common type of anxiety disorders that affects the performance and social communication. Among the factors influencing the development and maintenance of the disorder, is early maladaptive schemas and deficits in emotion regulation. The present study aimed to present the structural model of direct and indirect role of early maladaptive schemas on social anxiety with mediation of emotion regulation. Methods and Materials: In this descriptive-correlation research, the study population consisted of all students of University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, that among them, 300 students were selected using multistage cluster sampling technique. Young maladaptive schemas, Kanverd social anxiety and Gross and John emotion regulation questionnaires were used to the collect data. The data were analyzed using path analysis method. Findings: Disconnection/rejection, impaired autonomy and performance, impaired limitation, other-directedness and over vigilance/inhibition schemas, due to emotional regulation, had positive and significant effects on social anxiety symptoms (P < 0.01). On the other hand, among the early maladaptive schemas, role of over vigilance, impaired autonomy and performance, and disconnection/rejection schemas in social anxiety were more prominent than the other-directedness and impaired limitations. Conclusions: The findings indicated that not only social anxiety was affected by bad-functioning in maladaptive schemas but also the symptoms of this disorder was aggravated by emotion disregulation; so that the negative effects of defective cognition on social anxiety were increased through defective performance of emotional regulation and aggravated the symptoms of social anxiety.

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Aim and Background: This study aimed to investigate the role of early maladaptive schemas, personality disorders, and coping styles in predicting binge eating behavior. Methods and Materials: The study subjects included 150 students of Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University with body mass index (BMI) of higher than 25 kg/m2. They were selected through convenience sampling based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. After explaining the purpose of the study, they were asked to fill out the questionnaires. The research tools included the Young-Rygh Avoidance Inventory (YRAI), Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III), Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form 3 (YSQ-S3), Binge Eating Scale (BES), and Young Compensation Inventory (YCI). Data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation and simultaneous regression in SPSS. Findings: The abandonment/instability, emotional deprivation, dependence/incompetence, insufficient self-control, emotional inhibition, and defectiveness/shame schemas were able to explain 37.2% of variance in binge eating. In addition, avoidance and compensation coping styles explained 12.3% of variance in binge eating, and borderline, avoidant, and passive-aggressive personality disorders explained 18.5% of variance in binge eating. Conclusions: It seems that early maladaptive schemas areas of impaired autonomy, inhibition, and limits, especially disconnection and rejection, as well as coping styles, and borderline and passive-aggressive personality disorders have an important role in the pathology and treatment of binge eating disorder. Use of psychological interventions for the reduction of behaviors caused by the mentioned schemas and alterations in the coping style of overweight individuals may accelerate the healing process.

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Aim and Background: Depression is one of the most common comorbidities of chronic pains such as chronic back pain and is the cause of limitations in the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBTs) in individuals with chronic pain. The existence of similar limitations and problems in cognitive-behavioral programs for the treatment of depression has caused a growing trend in the use of schema therapy by researchers in this regard. The aim of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of CBT and schema therapy on the reduction of depression in Iranian patients with chronic low back pain. Methods and Materials: The present clinical trial was conducted with a quasi-experimental design, pretest-posttest, fallow-up, and control group. In this study, 35 patients with chronic low back pain who were referred to pain specific clinics or neurosurgery clinics of Akhtar Hospital and Imam Hussein Hospital (AS) in Tehran, Iran, were selected through purposive sampling method. All patients completed the Chronic Pain Questionnaire, and Depression Subscale of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21) in the pretest, posttest, and 2 months follow-up stages. Moreover, the schema therapy group completed the 90-Item Short Form of Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ-SF) in addition to the mentioned questionnaires. Mixed effect regression model was used in SPSS software to investigate the efficacy of the two therapy methods on the reduction of depression in patients with chronic back pain.   Findings: Results showed that CBT (P < 0.005) and schema therapy (P < 0.033) had significant impacts on depression in patients with chronic low back pain in the 2 months follow-up stage. However, there was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of depression reduction in this stage (P < 0.519). Conclusions: Both CBT and schema therapy are effective in improving symptoms of depression in patients with chronic low back pain and can be used as appropriate treatment methods in patients with chronic pain and depression.

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Aim and Background: Depression and anxiety have a significant impact on performance, quality of life, hospitalization duration and treatment result in patients with cancer. The current study aimed to investigate the role of emotional schemas in predicting anxiety and depression in patients with cancer. Methods and Materials: Using convenience sampling, 250 cancer patients admitted to the oncology ward of Rasool Akram Hospital of Tehran, Iran, were selected in the form of a descriptive-analytical design. Data were obtained by emotional schemas scale (ESS), Beck anxiety inventory (BAI) and Beck depression inventory (BDI) questionnaires. The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and Stepwise regression analysis. Findings: There was a significant association between all subscales of emotional schemas with depression and anxiety (P < 0.05). Among all emotional schemas, being out of control, strong values, guilt, self-awareness and reasonable effort schemas had the ability to predict depression among patients with cancer. Overall, 38% of the variance and variability of depression were explained by variables of emotional schemas. Also, emotional schemas such as being out of control, scolding, reasonable effort and guilt had a role in predicting anxiety in patients with cancer. In total, 24% of the variance and variability of anxiety was explained by variables of emotional schemas. Conclusions: The emotional schemas play an important role in the prediction of depression and anxiety level in patients with cancer. Therefore, psychological interventions in this field can lead to a reduction in depression and anxiety in these patients through identifying and modifying negative emotional schemas.

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Aim and Background: Addiction and its unpleasant consequences are one of the most important public health problems worldwide. Initial maladaptive schemas are related to addiction. The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of admission and commitment therapy (ACT) and schema therapy on early maladaptive schemas in addicted people. Methods and Materials: The research method was pre-test, post-test experimental study with control group. The statistical population included 1500 people. A sample of 60 people was selected and randomly assigned to 3 groups, one control group (n = 20), and two experimental groups (n = 20, each). Young schema questionnaire short form (YSQ-SF) was used to measure early maladaptive schemas. The experimental groups participated in 12 sessions of the treatment group weekly for two 90-minute sessions. Descriptive statistics including mean and standard deviation, and inferential statistics were analyzed using covariance analysis, homogeneity and uniformity tests of variance and post hoc test. Findings: ACT and schema therapy were effective on the components of early maladaptive schemas. Conclusions: The group-based ACT and schema therapy have been able to reduce early maladaptive schemas and can be used in the treatment of patients with this disorder.

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Aim and Background: Somatic symptoms and physical complaints (palpitations, dizziness, etc.) make a significant part of admittances to health centers. Therefore, identifying the mechanisms and their etiology is of very high importance. Clinical observations over the past two centuries have linked these symptoms with emotions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the etiology of somatic symptoms based on negative emotional schemas by mediating alexithymia and emotional expressiveness Methods and Materials: The method used in this research was correlation. The research sample consisted of 440 female undergraduate and postgraduate students at Khomeini Shahr Azad University who were selected using the convenience sampling method. The members completed the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire (EEQ), Somatic Symptom Disorder-B Criteria Scale (SSD-12) and Leahy Emotional Schemas Scale (LESS). The data was analyzed using structural equation modeling with SPSS and LISREL softwers. Findings: Based on the results, the hypothesized model has an appropriate fit with the data. The path of negative emotional schemas,emotional expressiveness (total effect: -0.269.P<0.001) and the path of emotional expressiveness, somatic symptoms (total effect: -0.346.P<0.001) is negative and significant. Also, the path of negative emotional schemas ,alexithymia (total effect: 0.358.P<0.001) and the path of alexithymia , somatic symptoms (total effect: 0.356.P<0.001) is positive and significant. the path of negative emotional schemas ,somatic symptoms (direct effect: 0.266. P<0.001) is positive and significant. According to the results of structural equations, negative emotional schemas had a significant effect on somatic symptoms through alexithymia and emotional expressiveness. (Indirect effect: 0.221. P<0.001) Conclusions: Research shows that emotional schemas, in addition to the direct effect on somatic symptoms, can also be influenced by alexithymia and emotional expressiveness. Therefore, the results of this study can be used in preventing, understanding the underlying causes and mechanisms for pathology, and treatment of somatic symptoms.

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Aim and Background: Infidelity is one of the most painful experiences of marital relationships. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the role of moderating religious commitment in the relationship between attachment styles and maladaptive schemas with tendency to infidelity.

Methods and Materials: This research was descriptive. Sampling method was available (125 married and 125 married men). For collecting data, Behavioral Systems Questionnaire (BSQ), Early Maladaptive Schemas Questionnaire- Short Form (EMSQ-SF), Religious Commitment Questionnaire (RCQ), and Relation Issues Questionnaire (RIQ) were used.

Findings: The results of this study showed that religious commitment has a moderating effect on the relationship between avoidant attachment style and tendency to infidelity (p<0.05). However, this factor does not mediate other relationships between attachment styles and areas of maladaptive schemas with tendency to infidelity (p<0.05).

Conclusions: Religious commitment can mediate the relationship between the avoidant attachment style and the tendency to infidelity and reduce this tendency.

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Aim and Background: Somatic symptoms make a significant part of admittances to health centers. Since clinical observations have linked these symptoms with emotions, the present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of emotional schema therapy on decreasing negative emotional schemas, Alexithymia And Signs of Patients with somatic Symptoms. Methods and Materials: The present study was a type of semi-experimental research with pre-test post-test design with control group. The population of this study was all female patients with somatic symptoms of Isfahan province and sample included 30 referents from counseling centers of Isfahan and Khomeini shahr with somatic symptoms that were selected based on Judgment sampling and with psychiatrist's and psychologist's discriminant and divided into two experimental (15) and control (15) groups. The experimental group received 12 sessions of emotional schema therapy approach. The Leahy Emotional Schematic Scale (LESS), Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS_20), and the B-Score Somatic Symptom Inventory (SSD-12) were used for participants. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis of covariance in SPSS 24. Findings: After the implementation of emotional schema therapy, there was a significant difference in the negative emotional schemas (F: 8. 24, P<0. 008), alexithymia (F: 250. 89, P<0. 001) and somatic symptoms (F: 374. 59, P<0. 001) in the experimental group compared to the control group and the mean scores of the experimental group were significantly lower than the control group. Conclusions: The results of this study showed The Emotional Schema Therapy Model, based on the existence of a relationship between negative emotional schemas and alexithymia with somatic symptoms, by modifying the underlying emotional processes and improving the maladaptive strategies of individuals toward emotions, reduced the negative emotional schema and alexithymia and somatic Symptoms.

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Aim and Background: Anxiety can lead to heart disease in a 10-year interval, and heart disease, in turn, leads to anxiety; death anxiety. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of group schema therapy on reducing the death anxiety in cardiovascular patients. Methods and Materials: The statistical population included all patients with cardiovascular disease referred to Tehran heart center. The sampling method was of convenience and the research design was semi-experimental with the experimental and control groups including pre-test and post-test. Initially, the data from the Templer death anxiety scale were collected from 113 individuals and after a primary evaluation 30 individuals (18 women and 12 men) from the participants who had the highest marks in the test were involved in the research and assigned randomly to two experimental and control groups. It was previously considered that the participants did not suffer from a nervous condition disturbing consciousness, such as head injury and dementia. Then, the members of the experimental group were intervened for 12 sessions of 90 minutes by group schema therapy and after that, they were evaluated again in terms of the degree of death anxiety. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 23. Findings: The results showed that after the implementation of the schema therapy, the death anxiety level of the experimental group significantly decreased (p< 0.05, F= 147.4). Therefore, the hypothesis of the research on the effectiveness of group schema therapy on reducing death anxiety is confirmed. Conclusions: This finding may contribute to the current research vacuum regarding death anxiety in cardiovascular patients as well as to clinical applications in the face of this phenomenon.

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Aim and Background: The research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of emotional schema therapy on the mood symptoms and impulsivity of women with bipolar disorder (I, II).

Methods and Materials: Present research was semi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design and follow-up with control group that was performed on 30 female patients with bipolar disorder referring to the Farabi hospital in Isfahan in 2016. Participants were selected by available sampling, then they were randomly assigned to experimental (n=15) and control group (n=15). Participants responded to Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (2004), Hamilton Questionnaire and Young Mania Scale in three steps pretest, posttest and follow-up. Experimental group in addition to medication, they received emotional schema therapy in group method during 14, 90-minute sessions while the control group did not received any cognitive intervention. Descriptive statistics methods and analysis of multivariate Covariance and were used for analyzing the data

Findings: Findings showed that emotional schema therapy had impact on the dimensions of impulsivity and mood symptoms (depression and mania) of bipolar patients and this effectiveness continued to be sustained in fallow up 3 months later.

Conclusions: Applying emotional schema therapy along with drug therapy can be effective intervention for treatment of mood symptoms and impulsivity in patients with bipolar disorder.

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Aim and Background: One of the common problems in the couple's relationship is marital conflict that can lead to depression, addiction, and spousal abuse, verbal or physical conflict between married couples. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of an integrated approach of schema therapy based Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on reduction of marital conflicts and divorce tendency in divorce applicant couples.
Methods and Materials: This study was quasi experimental with pretest, posttest and control group. The data statistical population includes all of divorce applicant couples to intervention crisis center of Mashhad in winter 2019. The sample include 30 couples (15 couples in group control and 15 couples in experimental group) were voluntary selected by convenience sampling with replacement. The experimental group underwent 10 sessions of 90 minutes educated by Schema therapy based Acceptance and commitment therapy protocol and control group was not under any intervention. Both groups were requested to answer marital conflict and divorce tendency questionnaire. Data were analyzed using MANCOVA covariance analysis and SPSS software.
Findings: The results showed that the schema therapy based acceptance and commitment therapy led to significant differences in the post test of the experimental group and the comparison of the meanings showed an decrease marital conflicts (ƞ 2 =0.52, p= 0.001, F= 67.03) and divorce tendency (ƞ 2 =0.54, p= 0.001, F= 66.18) in the experimental group (P<.01).
Conclusions: The findings of this study indicate the beneficial effects schema therapy based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on marital conflicts and divorce tendency in divorce applicant couples.Counselors and family therapists can use this effective integrated approach to slove marital conflicts and help people to improve their marital relationships.

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Aim and Background: Psychotic-like experiences are considered non-clinical and mild forms of psychotic disorders that are associated with negative consequences such as distress, mental disorders and functional impairments. In addition, they can lead to clinical psychosis. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation, cognitive biases, and negative schemas in the relationship between traumatic childhood experiences and psychotic-like experiences.
Methods and Materials: The research was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population consisted of all students of Islamic Azad University, Birjand branch (N=5700) in the academic year of 2019-2020. The sample size was 400 people who were selected by cluster random sampling. In order to collect data, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), Davos Assessment of Cognitive Biases Scale (DACOBS), Brief Core Schema Scales (BCSS) and the 16-item version of the Prodromal Questionnaire (PQ-16) were used. The present research data were analyzed using SPSS and LISREL software and structural equation modeling.
Findings: The results showed that traumatic childhood experiences have a significant effect on the cognitive emotion regulation, cognitive biases and negative schemas (p <0.05). Cognitive emotion regulation, cognitive biases, and negative schemas have a significant effect on the psychotic-like experiences (p <0.05). Also, cognitive emotion regulation, cognitive biases, and negative schemas mediated the relationship between traumatic childhood experiences and psychotic-like experiences.
Conclusions: The results of the present study support the hypothesis that cognitive emotion regulation, cognitive biases, and negative schemas mediate the relationship between traumatic childhood experiences psychotic-like experiences.