Relationships between positive schemas and life satisfaction in psychiatric inpatients

Frontiers in Psychology

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Danni Chi¹  Haiyun Zhong¹  Yubo Wang¹  Hong Ma¹  Yuanyuan Zhang¹  Xiangju Du¹ 

[1] Psychosomatic Medicine Department, Ningbo Kangning Hospital

关键词: early adaptive schema;    positive schema;    life satisfaction;    resilience;    Depression;    Anxiety;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1061516

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Objectives: Unlike the extensively examined early maladaptive schemas, positive schemas have rarely been examined in clinical populations. This study aimed to investigate the relationships between anxiety, depression, life satisfaction, resilience, and positive schema in psychiatric inpatients and explore their associations. Methods: A sample of 140 psychiatric inpatients with anxiety and depression, aged between 18 to 72 years (Mage= 35.62, SD = 13.87), participated in this study; majority were women (n = 98, 70.0%). The analyses examined resilience and anxiety/depression as mediators between positive schema and life satisfaction. Results: The statistical analyses found that resilience and anxiety/depression were parallel rather than serial mediators between positive schemas and life satisfaction. The results confirmed the positive association between positive schemas and life satisfaction, and identified mechanisms between them: directly associated, associated through resilience, and associated through anxiety/depression. Conclusions: The findings of this study suggest that higher levels of positive schemas in psychiatric inpatients are associated with greater life satisfaction directly and through the mediation of reduced psychopathological emotions and increased resilience. Longitudinal studies are needed to explore the associations between positive schema and negative and positive outcomes, and the mechanisms underlying these associations in clinical populations.

【 授权许可】

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