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- Title
It's Not Me, It's You: Self- and Partner-Schemas, Depressive Symptoms, and Relationship Quality.
- Authors
Wilde, Jesse Lee; Dozois, David J. A.
- Abstract
Depression is associated with a host of interpersonal difficulties, particularly within intimate relationships. Although a significant body of literature has supported the presence of a highly consolidated negative self-representation or self-schema, no studies have examined whether depression is also associated with a highly organized negative 'partner-schema', and whether this represents a risk factor for relationship distress. Given the high degree of similarity between cognitive representations of self and close others, it was predicted that depression would be associated with a partner-schema structure mirroring that of the self-schema: an organized cognitive structure characterized by tightly interconnected negative information, and loosely dispersed positive information. In a sample of 291 undergraduate students, results supported this hypothesis. The findings also revealed that partner-schema structure was associated with relationship quality and attributions about a partner's behaviors over and above self-schema structure. These findings have important implications for understanding the link between cognitive risk factors, relational dysfunction, and depressive symptoms.
- Subjects
MENTAL depression; INTERPERSONAL relations &; psychology; SELF-schemas; RELATIONSHIP quality; NEGATIVISM
- Publication
Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology, 2018, Vol 37, Issue 5, p356
- ISSN
0736-7236
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/jscp.2018.37.5.356