TITLE:
Are early maladaptive schemas, temperament and character dimensions correlated?
AUTHORS:
Hakan Atalay, Naz Berfu Akbaş, Oğuzhan Zahmacıoğlu, Emine Zinnur Kılıç, Zeynep Göktuna
KEYWORDS:
Early Maladaptive Schemas; Temperament; Character; Personality Development
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Psychiatry,
Vol.3 No.2,
April
10,
2013
ABSTRACT: Objective: Aim of the
study is to examine the relationships between early maladaptive schemas and
the character and temperament aspects of personality, which are known as two
approaches to the understanding of personality structure. Methods: We conducted
the study using the Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form (YSQ-SF) and the
Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) in 122 university students
from different schools. Results and Conclusion: Results demonstrated that there are high level of
positive as well as negative correlations between most of TCI items and some of
the sub-scales of the YSQ, including vulnerability, social isolation and defectiveness.
In consistent with the Halvorsen et al.’s findings, our study
demonstrated that harm avoidance had a positive relationship with several EMSs,
including emotional deprivation, deficiency, dependence, failure, subjugation
and selfsacrifice. More importantly, we obtained the results consistent with
theirs regarding the negative correlations between self-directedness and
almost all of EMSs, with the exception of the schema of subjugation. We concluded
that although some of the personality characteristics contained in the YSQ
and the TCI are appeared to be related to each other, we need more studies to
support the Young et al.’s suggestion that early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) are likely to reflect underlying
characterological factors of personality.