The correlation between resilience and cognitive schemas among people with psychiatry diagnosed parents

摘要

The growing attention given to resilience is a mark of the passing from the study of pathogenesis to sanogenesis, a scientific trend which investigates one's resources that help staying healthy. The present paper proposes to contribute to understanding resilience as a process by analyzing its connection to cognitive schema. For this purpose a study of 60 participants has been conducted: 30 of them formed the experimental group (people with parents who reported receiving mental health services) and other 30 forming the control group. The study hypothesis viewed the impact of the psychological condition of parents over the resilience and cognitive schema which occur among their children and identifying the prediction quality of the cognitive schema in relation to the subject's resilience. Also the study evaluated the degree of influence of age and gender differences on resilience. The following questionnaires where applied: The Young Cognitive Schema Questionnaire, the 14 Resilience Scale and the Ego Resilience Scale. The data has been processed using SPSS -13.0. It was confirmed that resilience is possible in the case of people with parents who experienced mental health disorders; also it was concluded that there is a significant impact of cognitive schema over resilience. In addition, we have come to the conclusion that there is an impact of the psychological condition of parents in the development of certain cognitive schemas of their children, especially of the ones related it.