TY - JOUR
T1 - Cognitive specificity in trait anger in relation to depression and anxiety in a community sample
AU - Maud, Monica
AU - Shute, Rosalyn
AU - McLachlan, Angus
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - The current research explored 16 of Young's schemas in relation to trait anger and to anxiety and depression symptoms among 262 non-clinical Australian adults with low-level symptomatology and average anger levels. The study partially replicated previous work with a sample of Spanish students that investigated the relationship between anger, depression, and anxiety and Young's schemas. Predictions derived from Beck's notion of cognitive specificity were examined using structural equation modelling and showed that of the sixteen schemas, Vulnerability was linked to anxiety, Social Isolation and Enmeshment were linked to depression, and Entitlement, Insufficient Self-Control, Mistrust and Abuse, Subjugation (negatively), and Abandonment were linked to anger. The discrepancies between these and the Spanish findings and the difficulties of other researchers in establishing higher order aggregations of Young's schemas prompted further consideration of the range of such schemas with respect to anger, depression, and anxiety, and the possibility that sample characteristics may play a critical role in determining the varying affect-schema relationships.
AB - The current research explored 16 of Young's schemas in relation to trait anger and to anxiety and depression symptoms among 262 non-clinical Australian adults with low-level symptomatology and average anger levels. The study partially replicated previous work with a sample of Spanish students that investigated the relationship between anger, depression, and anxiety and Young's schemas. Predictions derived from Beck's notion of cognitive specificity were examined using structural equation modelling and showed that of the sixteen schemas, Vulnerability was linked to anxiety, Social Isolation and Enmeshment were linked to depression, and Entitlement, Insufficient Self-Control, Mistrust and Abuse, Subjugation (negatively), and Abandonment were linked to anger. The discrepancies between these and the Spanish findings and the difficulties of other researchers in establishing higher order aggregations of Young's schemas prompted further consideration of the range of such schemas with respect to anger, depression, and anxiety, and the possibility that sample characteristics may play a critical role in determining the varying affect-schema relationships.
KW - Affect
KW - Cognitive specificity
KW - Schema
KW - Trait anger
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84869767316&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1742-9544.2011.00037.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1742-9544.2011.00037.x
M3 - Article
VL - 47
SP - 254
EP - 261
JO - Australian Psychologist
JF - Australian Psychologist
SN - 0005-0067
IS - 4
ER -