Antisocial Personality; Temperament, Styles of Parenting and Early Maladaptive Schemas

The aim of this study is to evaluate the model explanation of antisocial personality disorder based on early maladaptive schemas, styles of parenting and temperament. A total of 412 University students (244 male and 168 female) from the Universities of Qom were chosen through multistage cluster sampling. They completed the (MCMI-III) inventory, Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ-SF), Young parenting style inventory (YPI), Temperament Cloninger inventory (TCI). Then the findings examined by using LISREL software and SPSS to the exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory and structural equation. Reliability and validity confirmation and the general structure of the proposed model, the sample was appropriate and satisfactory fit indices. Among the models that model proposed to determine the direct effect of parenting styles and dimensions of temperament and schema was approved and mediation schema model explaining the effect of parenting styles and temperament was not confirmed. The mediation of early maladaptive schemas was not fixed in explaining antisocial personality disorder through the temperament, parenting styles. But the explanation of antisocial personality disorder was directly demonstrated by temperament, parenting styles and schemas.