The Relationship between Early Maladaptive Schemas and Quality of Life with Couples' Conflict Resolution Methods
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The current research investigated the relationship between early maladaptive schemas (EMS) and quality of life with conflict resolution methods of couples. This research was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive survey of correlation type in terms of method. The statistical population included all the couples referred to the Ferdows Educational Counseling Center located in Tehran, with the scope of couple therapy counseling between August and December 2022. Among them, 85 people were selected using the available method who completed Yong's schema questionnaire (2005), the World Health Organization's quality of life questionnaire (1994), and Rahim's (1997) standard questionnaire of workplace patterns. The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation, regression, and Darian analysis. The findings showed a significant negative relationship between the quality of life and schemas of emotional deprivation, mistrust, social isolation, defectiveness/shame, dependence, obedience, emotional inhibition, stubbornness, entitlement, pessimism, and punishment at the 0.05 level, and there is a positive and significant relationship with his workplace style at the 0.05 level. In addition, there is a negative and significant relationship between the quality of life and the schemas of abandonment, failure, self-sacrifice, and restraint at the 0.01 level. There is a positive and significant relationship between the styles of the workplace and emotional isolation schemas, abandonment, failure, vulnerability, obedience and self-sacrifice at the level of 0.05, and a significant negative relationship with schemas of social isolation of the untransformed self, stubborn self-restraint criteria, kindness and punishment at the level of 0.05, and a positive and significant relationship with the schemas of mistrust, defectness/shame, emotional inhibition, entitlement and job acceptance at the level of 0.01.
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