Mediating role of schema modes in the relationship between perceived parenting styles and depression in clinical and non-clinical adult samples

In this study, the mediating role of schema modes in the relationship of perceived parenting styles with depression in adult individuals was examined using structural equation modeling. For this purpose, two different clinical and non-clinical samples were created and the data obtained from these samples were discussed in the light of the literature. The clinical sample of the study consisted of 629 people (71.1% women; mean age: 39.22) aged between 18 and 65 years, while the non-clinical sample consisted of 589 people (79.9% women; average age: 28.25) aged between 18 and 65 years. Demographic Information Form, Young Parenting Scale, Beck Depression Scale and Young Schema Mode Scale were applied to the participants on a voluntary basis. In addition to these scales, SCL 90-R Scale was applied to the participants in the clinical sample. Approval was obtained from the ethics committee of Istanbul Arel University Institute of Social Sciences for conducting the research. In the study, it was concluded that schema modes were full mediated in the clinical and non-clinical adult samples to the relationship between mother and father perceived parenting styles with depression. In clinical and non-clinical samples, there was a statistically significant positive relationship between mother and father parenting styles, depression and scheme modes. Therefore, it was concluded that as the negative parenting style perceived from the mother and father in clinical and non-clinical samples increases, the scheme modes also increase and the level of depression increases. It was found that the levels of relationships between perceived parenting styles, schema modes and depression in the models of clinical and non-clinical samples are similar. In both samples, it was found that perceived father parenting styles were a more important determinant of schema modes than perceived mother parenting styles. In addition, it was found that father parenting styles were more associated with depression and schema modes than mother parenting styles in both samples. The findings obtained from this study were evaluated according to the literature. Suggestions are presented according to the results obtained.