The study of association between parental conflicts and attachment styles and dysfunctional schemas in children

This article aims to investigate the relationship between parents' conflicts with attachment styles and dysfunctional schemas in children. The research method was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population of this research includes all female students aged 8 to 13 who studied in the 7th district of Mashhad in the academic year 1401-1402. The sampling method in the present study was in the form of a multi-stage cluster. Also, the sample size was estimated based on the Morgan table, considering the size of the population. The number of elementary school students in Haft District of Mashhad was estimated to be 2,847. The number of defensible samples for this population size was 338 people. The research tool is a standard questionnaire. At the end, the data were analyzed using SPSS software. The results showed that the relationship between parental conflict and children's secure attachment style is negative and inverse, but the correlation between anxious attachment and avoidant attachment is positive and direct. Also, the results showed that the relationship between parental conflict and schemas of abandonment, domineering, mistrust and misbehavior, defect, failure, vulnerability, undeveloped self, sacrifice, stubborn standards, entitlement and grandeur, and insufficient self-control is positive and direct, which means that The higher the parents' conflicts and its components are, the higher the level of children's dysfunctional schema will be.