Investigating the role of early incompatible schemas, difficulty in emotional regulation and coping styles in the prediction of gender dysphoria in people undergoing gender transitions

Subject Areas : Educational

somaye rahimi ¹ , mehrdad kalantari ² , Mohammad Raza Abedi ³ , morteza modares gharavi ⁴

1 - Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
4 - Associate Professor of clinical psychology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

Received: 2019-06-11 Accepted : 2020-01-26 Published : 2022-02-20

Keywords: coping styles, gender dysphoria, early maladaptive schemas, Difficulty in Emotional Regulation,

Abstract :

The purpose this study was to investigate the role of early maladaptive schemas as cognitive factors and the role of difficulty in emotional regulation and coping styles as emotional factors in the prediction of gender dysphoria. This study was correlational. The statistical population included all individuals with gender dysphoria, visiting the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization of Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran, in order to follow legal proceedings for gender reassignment. Hundred participants were selected via convenience sampling, gave informed consent, and completed questionnaires: Difficulties in Emotion Regulation, Young Schema, coping styles, and Gender Identity Disorder The data were analyzed by stepwise regression .Based on the results of stepwise regression analysis in the field of difficulty in emotional regulation, the most important variable is limited strategies and the other important variables are the difficulty in performing the purposeful behavior, lack of emotional awareness and difficulty in controlling the momentum and the style of emotion-focused coping. The results of this analysis in the context of early maladaptive schemas extract the emotional exclusion schemas, distrust, and emotional inhibition. The results of this analysis, in general, show the most important variables in terms of limited strategies, distrust, difficulty in controlling impulse and emotional deprivation.

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