Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2022.148

PREDISPOSITION OF EARLY MALADAPTIVE SCHEMAS AND POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION DURING COVID-19 CRISIS: MEDIATION OF MINDFULNESS

Rida Fatima ; Department of Psychology, Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan City, Punjab, Pakistan
Alishba Hania ; Department of Psychology, Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan City, Punjab, Pakistan

Abstract

Background: Past studies provide crucial evidence that pregnancy and childbirth increase the risk of emotional vulnerability
and instability. Current research intends to explore the role of early maladaptive schemas and mindfulness as determinants of
postpartum depression for expecting mothers during COVID-19 pandemic.
Method: The data was collected from 170 expecting mothers who conceived and gave birth during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Edinburgh postnatal depression scale, the young schema questionnaire-SF 75 items, and the Kentucky inventory for mindfulness
scale were administered.
Results: Results discovered that mindfulness partially mediated the relationship between three kinds of early maladaptive
schemas and postpartum depression.
Conclusion: Mindfulness-based control techniques can be considered to buffer the impact of the early maladaptive schemas on
postpartum depression, for mothers who give birth during any challenging time.

Keywords

early maladaptive schemas; mindfulness; postpartum depression; COVID-19

Hrčak ID:

277529

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/277529

Publication date:

3.5.2022.

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