Like parent, like child? Exploring the association between early maladaptive schemas of adolescents involved with Child Protective Services and their parents

Like parent, like child? Exploring the association between early maladaptive schemas of adolescents involved with Child Protective Services and their parents

Zonnevijlle, M., Hildebrand, Martin. (2019). Like parent, like child? Exploring the association between early maladaptive schemas of adolescents involved with Child Protective Services and their parents. Child & Family Social Work, 24(2), 190-200. doi:10.1111/cfs.12602

Although early maladaptive schemas (EMS) have been successfully identified in a variety of adult samples and increasing evidence suggests that core maladaptive schemas can also be retrieved in children and adolescents, there is a dearth of research examining the association between maladaptive schemas of parents and their children. We designed the current exploratory study as a first step to investigate similarities and differences in EMS of adolescents (n = 20) involved with Child Protective Services and their parents (n = 20). Results demonstrated that there were some similarities in the specific EMS endorsed by both groups and that most of the significant correlations that were found between parents' and youths' EMS involved parent schemas of the Impaired limits and Disconnection/rejection domains and youths' schemas of the Disconnection/rejection and Impaired autonomy and performance domains. We also found significant positive correlations between several children's EMS and perceived parental rearing styles (i.e., rejection, control/overprotection, anxious rearing) and attachment anxiety.

Parent-Child Relations; Adolescent Behavior; Parental Behavior; Child Welfare; Child, Foster; In Adolescence; Human; Exploratory Research; Adolescence; Correlational Studies; Autonomy; Parenting; Attachment Behavior; Effect Size; Child; Male; Female; Quest

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Schema domains

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