Vulnerabilities to depression, anxiety and interpersonal problems: the role of parental styles, schemas and coping styles
Year: 2006
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Cognitive theory proposes that maladaptive schemas influence the development of anxious and depressive symptoms and early parental experiences have been proposed to influence schema development. In this current study, measures of depressive and anxious pathology, parenting styles, coping styles and interpersonal problems were administered to 224 undergraduate students. The main purpose the study was to test the cognitive model and the hypothesis that early maladaptive schemas (EMS) as defined by Young (1994) mediate the relationship between parenting styles and anxious and depressive pathology. Results indicated that EMSs do play an important mediational role in relationship to both anxious and depressive pathology. The second goal of the study was to further test the content specificity hypothesis in relationship to both anxious and depressive symptoms. Results of the study provided inconsistent support for the content specificity hypothesis. The final two goals of the study were to investigate the role EMSs play in the development of interpersonal problems and the role EMSs play in the development of maladaptive coping styles. Results of the study indicated that EMSs play an important role in the development of interpersonal problems and EMSs play an important role in the development of maladaptive coping styles.
Author: Daniel P. Kennedy
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2626014705