RELAÇÕES ENTRE EVENTOS ESTRESSORES PRECOCES E ESQUEMAS INICIAIS DESADAPTATIVOS EM ADULTOS

Abstract

Early Life Stressors (ELSs) are chronic and recurrent traumatic experiences in childhood or adolescence, associated with damage, suffering and impairment to cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social and physical development. Its main subcategories are physical, emotional and sexual abuse, and emotional and physical neglect. It is possible to analyze the consequences of these events from the perspective of Scheme Therapy, specifically in the formation of Early Maladaptive Schemes (EMSs). For that matter, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between the subtypes of ELSs and EMSs. The QUESI and YSQSF3 questionnaires were used in a non-clinical sample of 200 people, in which half (n = 100) indicated the presence of ELSs. The data was processed in IBM SPSS Statistics – version 22 software, using descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlations coefficients and comparison of means using the Independent Samples t-Test. By comparing the group with and without ELSs, it was possible to notice that the former had a higher prevalence of EMSs. In addition, each subtype of ELSs was related in different ways to the EMSs, suggesting that the differential influence of each type should be studied, with emphasis on emotional abuse, which had a higher prevalence and correlations with more schemes.