Predictive Role of Early Maladaptive Schemas in Neurotic Perfectionism in Middle-School Female Students from Kangavar

Abstract

Results: The study demonstrated that perfectionist students gained significantly higher scores in six out of eleven schemas (P < 0.05). There was a significant positive relationship among early maladaptive schemas and perfectionists in the schemas of loneliness, vulnerability, mistrust and abuse, submission, and unrelenting standards. Self-sacrifice predicted neurotic perfectionism in students. Conclusions: Early maladaptive schema may develop during the earliest years of life. It can be said that identification and diagnosis of early maladaptive schema among students will enable the provision of interventions for psychological disorders related to maladaptive schemas, including neurotic perfectionism.