Investigating the Structure of Structural Relationships between Childhood Trauma and Cognitive Distortions with Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Mediated by Early maladaptive Schemas

Narcissistic personality disorder is a very complex disorder that leads to significant problems in people with the disorder. The aim of the present study was to investigate the structural relationships between childhood trauma and cognitive distortions with narcissistic personality disorder mediated by early maladaptive schemas. The correlational research design model was structural equation modeling and its statistical population included students of Urmia University in the academic year 2019-2020. 225 students were selected through available sampling and narcissistic personality questionnaires, distortions. Cognitive completed Abdullah Zadeh and Salar, Nourbakhsh Child Abuse and Young's maladaptive schema. The results showed that the paths of childhood trauma, cognitive distortions and early maladaptive schemas with narcissism and the paths of childhood trauma and cognitive distortions with primary maladaptive schemas are significant. Also, the results of using Bootstrap test showed that indirect pathways of childhood trauma and cognitive distortions with narcissistic personality disorder through initial maladaptive schema have a fit index. Based on the findings of this study, it seems that early maladaptive schemas can affect the structural relationship between childhood trauma and cognitive distortion with narcissistic personality disorder.