RESEARCH ARTICLE
The Relationships Between Early Maladaptive Schemas, Quality of Life and Self-care Behaviors in a Sample of Persons Living with HIV: The Potential Mediating Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies
SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi1, Mehrzad MohsseniPour1, Elahe Aghaei2, Fariba Zarani2, Jalil Fathabadi2, *, Mona Mohammadifirouzeh 3
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2020Volume: 14
First Page: 100
Last Page: 107
Publisher ID: TOAIDJ-14-100
DOI: 10.2174/1874613602014010100
Article History:
Received Date: 17/5/2020Revision Received Date: 17/9/2020
Acceptance Date: 14/10/2020
Electronic publication date: 16/12/2020
Collection year: 2020
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Introduction:
People who are living with HIV often experience physical as well as psychological challenges. Therefore, the aim of this descriptive, correlational study was to explore the potential mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in the relationships between early maladaptive schemas, quality of life, and self-care behavior in patients with HIV/AIDS.
Methods:
In the first half of 2017, patients with HIV/AIDS (N=240) were recruited from an HIV clinic in Tehran, Iran. A self-report questionnaire included the Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form (YSQSF), Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), short form of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), and a self-care behaviors questionnaire. The data analysis involved using advanced statistical techniques for structural equation modeling.
Results:
There were significant, inverse relationships between all five areas of early maladaptive schemas and positive cognitive emotional regulation strategies, self-care behaviors, and quality of life. Also, there were significant, positive relationships between all five areas of early maladaptive schemas and negative cognitive and emotional regulation strategies.
Conclusion:
The findings suggest that practical interventions to reduce maladaptive responses may result in healthier outcomes for persons living with HIV.
