Schema Modes and Social Maladjustment: The Mediating Role of Difficulty in Emotion Regulation

Overview

Journal Heliyon

Specialty Social Sciences

Date 2024 Dec 5

PMID 39634428

Authors

Yasaman Sepidkar

Saeedeh Zenoozian

Farzane Ahmadi

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Abstract

Background: Studies show that emotion regulation as a special form of self-regulation and schema modes as the basis of different states of awareness affect the behavior and cognition of individuals, which can also affect social adjustment in the sense of establishing a balance between the needs of oneself and society. The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between schema modes and social maladjustment with the mediation of difficulty in emotion regulation in students.

Method: The participants were 670 students from a medical university who were selected by convenient sampling. Questionnaires on schema modes, Bell's social adjustment, and difficulty in emotion regulation were administered. Data analyzed by the R package .

Results: The results indicated the mediating effect of emotion regulation difficulty on the relationship between schema modes and social maladjustment. Child modes predict 16 %, coping modes 13 %, parent modes 12 %, and healthy adult modes 10 % of the variance of social maladjustment mediated by difficulty in emotion regulation.

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