EMOTIONALLY CHARGED AND SHARED MEMORY CONVERSATIONS OF MOTHER-CHILD DYADS: THE ROLE OF MOTHERS’ EARLY MALADAPTIVE SCHEMAS

2022-2-24
Çeviker, Gizem
The current study examined the association between schema domains grouped by early maladaptive schemas of mothers and emotionally-charged memory characteristics of both mothers and their children. Mothers and their 4–5-year-old-children (N = 60) were invited to the Zoom meetings. Mothers were asked to reminisce separately about emotionally positive and emotionally negative memories and to fill out the Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ). All conversations were transcribed verbatim and coded. Findings revealed that the disconnection & rejection schema domain predicted mothers’ usage of more negative emotion words and more unique emotion words and children’s usage of more negative emotion words during positively-charged memory conversations. The impaired autonomy & performance schema domain predicted mothers’ usage of less unique emotion words while predicting children’s usage of less negative emotion words during positively-charged memory conversations. Finally, the impaired limits schema domain predicted mothers’ usage of more positive emotion words during negatively-charged memory conversations. Children, who have mothers having schemas within this domain, used more unique emotion words during positively-charged memory conversations. When it comes to the gender of the child, daughters used less negative emotion words and unique emotion words if they have mothers who have higher scores in disconnection & rejection and impaired limits schema domain, whereas daughters used more negative emotion words if they have mothers who have higher scores in impaired autonomy & performance schema domains. All the results of the current study are discussed in light of the literature.

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G. Çeviker, “EMOTIONALLY CHARGED AND SHARED MEMORY CONVERSATIONS OF MOTHER-CHILD DYADS: THE ROLE OF MOTHERS’ EARLY MALADAPTIVE SCHEMAS,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2022.