Early unadapted cognitive schemas in battered women

Abstract

This study aims to uncover the dominant early unadapted cognitive schemas in battered women based on jeffrey young’s theory as one of the most recent theories, of an integrative nature, and also to check it we relied on the descriptive method, the scale of early unadapted cognitive schemas of the psychological scientist jeffrey young, applied to (30) women victims of physical violence, and to process and analyze data statistically the arithmetic average was used, the results showed that the dominant schemas in the study sample are the schema of emotional deprivation, the schema of neglect and instability, the schema of caution and encroachment from the field of separation and rejection, the schema of fear of illness or danger from the field of lack of independence and achievement, the schema of sacrifice from the field of excessive orientation towards others and the schema of high requirements from the field of excessive vigilance and cessation