The Role of Early Maladaptive Schemas in Postpartum Depression

Table 3

Scale scores of groups with and without postpartum depression.

YSQ-S3	The group with postpartum depression			The group without postpartum depression
	Age	Total number of pregnancy	EDS	Age	Total number of pregnancy	EDS
Emotional deprivation	0.000	0.298	0.343	−0.082	−0.087	0.163
Failure	−0.146	−0.192	0.063	−0.090	−0.085	0.124
Pessimism	0.015	−0.102	0.279	−0.082	−0.065	0.230
Social inhibition	0.287	0.207	0.092	−0.085	−0.110	0.167
Emotional inhibition	−0.139	−0.074	0.039	0.003	0.040	−0.010
Approval seeking	0.231	0.064	−0.025	−0.049	−0.159	−0.009
Enmeshment	−0.183	0.043	−0.112	−0.178	−0.062	0.114
Unsuffient self-control	0.354	0.028	−0.022	−0.050	−0.218	−0.029
Subjugation	−0.119	0.045	−0.243	0.048	0.031	0.123
Abondanment	0.102	0.159	0.133	−0.091	0.135	0.035
Punitiveness	0.202	0.202	−0.055	0.033	−0.097	0.170
Defectiveness/shame	−0.026	0.008	0.009	−0.184	−0.035	0.161
Vulnarability to harm/illness	−0.074	0.009	0.114	−0.136	−0.080	0.214
Unrelenting standards	0.233	0.058	0.009	−0.043	−0.278	0.176

Abbreviations used in the table: Ave + SD: Average Standard Deviation; EPDS: Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; YSQ- S3: Young Schema Questionnaire- Short Form 3 Mann Whitney U Test has been used in the calculations.