Abstract:
El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la relación entre la presencia de esquemas desadaptativos tempranos –incluyendo privación emocional,
abandono, defectuosidad, aislamiento social, fracaso, vulnerabilidad, insuficiente autocontrol, grandiosidad, búsqueda de aprobación, subyugación,
inhibición... Ver más
Early maladaptive patterns and anxiety in schoolchildren in Mexico. The relationship between the presence of early maladaptive schemas (emotional
deprivation, abandonment, malfunction, social isolation, failure, vulnerability, insufficient self-control, grandiosity, search for approval, subjugation,
emotional inhibition, negativity and unrealistic standards) and the level of total anxiety, separation anxiety, social phobia, panic-somatization and
general anxiety in children was analyzed. Participants were 234 children from 8 to 13 years of age (M = 9.78, SD = 1,20, 59.82% were girls), belonging
to two public elementary schools in Mexico City. The study indicated that there were no significant differences by sex in anxiety levels; except
for panic-somatization; girls presented higher levels than boys. Also, it was found that all the schemas mentioned before correlated positively and
significantly with the level of total anxiety. In addition, the children who presented the schemas of malfunction, abandonment, vulnerability to extreme
catastrophes, emotional inhibition and negativity, showed higher levels of separation anxiety. The children that presented the schema vulnerability to
extreme catastrophes, showed higher levels of social phobia and the children that presented the schemas of abandonment and emotional inhibition,
showed higher levels of panic-somatization. Children who presented the schemas of abandonment and vulnerability to extreme catastrophes showed
higher levels of general anxiety. Also, the linear regression model indicated that the schemas that predict 54.8% of the variance of the total anxiety
were: vulnerability to extreme catastrophes, emotional inhibition, abandonment and malfunction. These results provide relevant information for the
development of prevention and intervention programs for childhood anxiety.
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