چکیده:
Objective: Sexual addiction is a psychiatric disorder with unpleasant personal, inter-personal,
legal, social, and physical outcomes for the patients. The cycle of this disorder is based on a
false belief system known as early maladaptive schemas. This study aimed to examine and
compare maladaptive cognitive schemas in sex addicts and normal people.
Methods: In the present study, a causal-comparative research method was undertaken. A total
of 30 male sex addicts were selected using a snowball sampling method from the population
of sex addicts in Tehran, Iran. Also, 30 normal men form the general population were selected
as the control group. Control participants were matched with the patients with regard to
demographic characteristics. Participants first completed the sexual addiction screening testrevised
form and then the Young schema questionnaire (YSQ). The data were analyzed using
the multivariate analysis of variance and stepwise discriminant analysis. All analyses were
conducted using SPSS.
Results: The results indicated that sex addicts scored on the YSQ significantly higher than
participants in the control group (P<0.001). Discriminant analysis revealed that 5 schemas,
including dependency, mistrust, subjugation, vulnerability, and emotional deprivation were the
best predictors of being a member of sexual addiction or non-sexual addiction groups (P<0.001).
Conclusion: Sex addicts have more and stronger early maladaptive schemas than normal
people, so they can be distinguished from normal people according to the schemas of
dependency, mistrust, subjugation, vulnerability, and emotional deprivation.
خلاصه ماشینی:
A Comparative Examination of Maladaptive Schemas in Sex Addicts and Normal Individuals CrossMark Ebrahim Soltani Azemat1, Abolfazl Mohammadian1, Nasrin Heydari Dolat Abadi2, Parvaneh Mohammadkhani3* 1.
This study aimed to examine and compare maladaptive cognitive schemas in sex addicts and normal people.
Research studies on early maladaptive schemas and psychopathology have always indicated the importance of schemas in the formation of psychopathological symp- toms (Pinto-Gouveia, Castilho, Galhardo, & Cunha, 2006).
For example, relationships between maladap- tive schemas and symptoms have been shown in social phobia, obsessive compulsive disorder, personality dis- orders, eating disorders, substance abuse, narcissism, impaired interpersonal relationships, and sexual addic- tion (Mohammad Beigi, Eghlidi, & Arab Ahmadi, 2014).
Although there are many studies on issues related to sex, there is a shortage of studies on sexual addiction and some important issues such as maladaptive schemas that are rooted in childhood experiences and parent- child relationships.
The goal of the present study was to examine and compare early maladaptive schemas in male sexual addicts and normal participants.
Young schema questionnaire-short form (YSQ-S3,) is a 75-item questionnaire developed by Young (Young, 1998) to evaluate 15 early maladaptive schemas, includ- ing emotional deprivation, mistrust/abuse, social isola- tion/alienation, defectiveness/shame, failure, depen- dency/incompetency, vulnerability to harm and illness, enmeshment/undeveloped-self, subjugation, self-sac- rifice, emotional inhibition, unrelenting standards, en- titlement/grandiosity, and insufficient self-control/self- discipline.
In the next step, a stepwise discriminant analysis was conducted in order to determine the predictive power of early maladaptive schemas in distinguishing sex addicts from normal individuals.