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Assessment Of Early Maladaptive Schemas Via A Modified Stroop Task, Yelena Kholodenko
Assessment Of Early Maladaptive Schemas Via A Modified Stroop Task, Yelena Kholodenko
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Processing biases play a major role in the understanding of anxiety disorders. The Schema theory hypothesizes that belief systems, early maladaptive schemas (EMS), cause selective processing of confirmatory information to the exclusion of disconfirmatory information. The current study was the first report attempting to provide empirical support for the measurement of EMS with a subtle cognitive processing assessment such as the Stoop task. A Schema Stroop task was constructed for the purposes of the current study.