Table 4.

Results of the mediation analyses for all 18 EMSs

YSQ EMS	Direct effect c1	p value	Mediated effect c–c1	p value	a	p value	b	p value
Emotional deprivation	12.93	0.028	2.97	0.210	1.69	0.094	1.76	0.179
Abandonment	13.57	0.029	2.33	0.260	2.47	0.079	0.94	0.233
Mistrust/abuse	14.69	0.014	1.22	0.555	0.63	0.543	1.93	0.062
Social isolation	13.19	0.021	2.72	0.179	1.56	0.152	1.74	0.072
Defectiveness/shame	9.88	0.106	6.02	0.057	4.04	0.004	1.49	0.016
Failure	10.05	0.101	5.85	0.051	2.25	0.017	2.59	0.003
Dependence	13.71	0.036	2.19	0.324	2.13	0.069	1.03	0.267
Vulnerability	14.25	0.020	1.66	0.428	1.87	0.076	0.89	0.476
Enmeshment	14.58	0.015	1.32	0.550	0.94	0.555	1.41	0.550
Subjugation	13.66	0.020	1.59	0.336	1.13	0.331	1.41	0.106
Self-sacrifice	15.85	0.007	0.05	0.974	0.06	0.974	0.87	0.132
Emotional inhibition	15.71	0.008	0.19	0.879	0.90	0.293	0.21	0.884
Unrelenting standards	15.88	0.002	0.02	0.666	0.01	0.986	2.38	0.005
Entitlement	15.89	0.009	0.01	0.930	0.06	0.956	0.18	0.928
Insufficient self-control	14.07	0.015	1.83	0.363	2.56	0.033	0.71	0.363
Approval-seeking	15.03	0.009	0.87	0.637	0.61	0.617	1.44	0.053
Negativity	11.38	0.053	4.52	0.112	2.48	0.022	1.83	0.017
Punitiveness	13.70	0.024	2.20	0.216	1.61	0.154	1.37	0.118

YSQ Young schema questionnaire; EMS early maladaptive schema; Childhood trauma burden as independent variable (IV), EDI-3-EDRC as dependent variable (DV), and each of the YSQ EMSs as mediator (MV). Total effect c = 15.90, p = 0.007; a: effect of IV on MV; b: effect of MV on DV