The mediating role of social bonding in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas, differentiation and cognitive regulation strategy of emotion with suicidal thoughts of socially damaged girls

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-differentiation, dysfunctional schemas, and cognitive regulation of emotion in predicting suicide in socially damaged girls and the mediating role of social bonding. The design of the present study was retrospective descriptive-correlation.

The research sample consisted of 200 people who were selected by a purposive sampling method among the clients of the social emergency of Tabriz city in 2023, and the differentiation questionnaire of Skowron and Friedlander (1998), Yang's early maladaptive schemas questionnaire (1967), Garnevsky's cognitive emotional regulation strategies questionnaire et al. (2001) and completed Hirschi's social bond scale (1969). Data analysis was done through structural equation modeling (SEM).

The fit of the proposed model was confirmed after modification, and the results of the structural equation model showed that the direct paths of dysfunctional schemas and cognitive regulation of emotion with suicide in injured girls were significant, but not significant in the case of the differentiation variable. In order to investigate the indirect effects, the bootstrap method was used, and the results showed that social bonding partially mediates the relationship between self-differentiation, dysfunctional schemas, and cognitive regulation of emotions with suicide in injured girls.

The findings of the present study show that psychological vulnerability alone or together with stressful events can play a role in the suicide of injured girls. Therefore, the results of this research can help in the field of effective factors in the suicide of injured girls.