Investigation of the fibromyalgia syndrome in the frame of schema model and emotion regulation difficulty

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between fibromyalgia syndrome and early incompatible schemas and emotion regulation difficulties and the mediating effect of the difficulty of emotion regulation between early maladaptive schemas and fibromyalgia syndrome. The participants of the study, voluntarily agree to participate and met the participation criteria, consist of 306 people in total, 153 of whom are experimental and 153 of whom are control. In this study in order to measure early discordant schemas, The Young Schema Questionnaire-SF3, in order to measure the difficulties of emotion regulation, Emotion Regulation Difficulty Scale, in order to measure the level of fibromyalgia and the effect of fibromyalgia on quality of life, Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire, and in order to measure the general symptom level of the participants, Symptom Check List is used. As a result of the analyzes, it is found that the participants of the experiment group who are diagnosed with fibromyalgia are more prone to schemas than those who are not diagnosed, and it is reached that they experienced more difficulty in emotion regulation and higher levels of general symptoms. In addition, the mediation effect of the relation between early maladaptive schemas and schema domains and the level of fibromyalgia is found to be significant in 33 of 63 analyzes using the PROCESS macro, which was developed by Hayes (2013) on the mediating role on sub-dimensions of emotion regulation difficulties. The findings are discussed in the light of the related literature.