Attachment and Loneliness: The Mediating Role of Maladaptive Schemas

Subject Areas : روان‌شناسی تحولی

Marziye Dalir Fardoee ¹ , Mehrnaz Ahmadi ²

1 - MA in Clinical Psychology Islamic Azad University Tehran-South Branch
2 - PhD Islamic Azad University Tehran-South Branch

Received: 2020-01-20 Accepted : 2020-01-20 Published : 2019-12-22

Keywords: Adolescent girls, attachment, loneliness, maladaptive schemas,

Abstract :

  The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of maladaptive schemas in the relationship between attachment and loneliness in female adolescents. The study design was correlational. 415 Ninth to twelfth grades students were selected by in access sampling method. The participants completed the Loneliness Scale-version 3 (Russell, 1996), Experiences in Close–relationship Structures Questionnaire (FeddernDonbaek & Elklit, 2014) and Short Form of Young Schema Questionnaire (Young & Brown, 1999). Data were analyzed by path analysis method. Results confirmed the mediating role of maladaptive schemas in the relationship between attachment and loneliness. Results also indicated the significant positive effect of avoidant attachment on disconnection, other-directedness, over vigilance/inhibition and impaired limit schemas. The direct effect of avoidant attachment on impaired schema was not significant. The direct effect of anxious attachment on disconnection, impaired performance, other-directedness, and over vigilance/inhibition schemas was positive. However, the direct effect of anxious attachment on the impaired limit was not significant. In addition, the direct effect of avoidant and anxious attachment and disconnection, over vigilance/inhibition on loneliness was positive; and the direct effect of other-directedness scheme on loneliness was negative. The direct effect of impaired performance and impaired limit on loneliness was not significant. Findings suggest that disconnection, over vigilance/inhibition and other-directedness schemas had a mediating role between attachment and loneliness relation.  

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