Journal of Psychiatry

The mediating role of early maladaptive schemas in the relationship of attachment styles and parenting styles with psychological well-being

27^th International Conference on PSYCHIATRY & PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH

June 18-19, 2018 Paris, France

Bita Yazdani and Reza Ghorban Jahromi

Islamic Azad University, Iran

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Psychiatry

Abstract:

The aim of this research was to determine the mediating role of early maladaptive schemas in the relationship between attachment and parenting styles with psychological well-being and to fulfil this, among all students in faculty of psychology and educational sciences in Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, 324 students (273 female and 51 male) were selected based on simple random sampling method. The tools used in this research for extracting the required data has been the following standard scales: psychological well-being by Ryff (1989), early maladaptive styles by Young (1988), attachment styles by Hazen and Shaver (1987) and parenting styles by Baum rind (1972) which were all used after verification and stability assessment. Data were analysed using path analysis method. The results suggested that the direct effect of avoidant attachment style was significant on four schemas. The direct effect of secure attachment style on three schemas was significant and negative and the direct effect of ambivalent attachment on all five schemas is significant. Moreover, the results suggest that there is a direct significant relationship between permissive parenting styles and other directedness, authoritarian parenting style and all five schemas and authoritative parenting style and three schemas. In addition, the direct effect of all five schemas on psychological well-being were negative and significant (p<0.01). Secure attachment style had an indirect effect on psychological well-being through schemas in a positive and significant way. The indirect effect of avoidant and insecure attachment styles on psychological well-being was negative and significant. The permissive parenting style did not have a significant indirect effect on psychological well-being. The authoritative parenting style indirectly affected psychological well-being in a significant and negative way through the schemas. The authoritarian parenting style also had a significant indirect effect on psychological well-being through the schemas.