Duygusal kötü muamelenin, duygusal şemaların ve kaçınmanın oyun bağımlılığı ve egzersiz bağımlılığına etkisi

The aim of the current study was to examine the mediator roles of negative emotional schemas and avodaince on the relationship between emotional maltreatment (i.e. emotional abuse and emotional neglect) and two kinds of behavioral addictions (i.e. gaming addiction and exercise addiction). These addictions were evaluated as distinct behavioral addictions sharing similar vulnerability and coping mechanisms. The study recruited 431 participants from video game players and 300 participants from exercisers. The demographic form, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form, Leahy's Emotional Schemas Scale, Cognitive Behavioral Avoidance Scale, Game Addiction Scale, and Exercise Dependence Scale-21 were administered in the study. To test the proposed model on different sample groups, two path analyses were performed. Emotional maltreatment variables were the exogenous variables; emotional schemas, and avodaince were mediators; and gaming addiction and exercise addiction were the endogenous variables. The findings indicated that players with emotional abuse had more negative beliefs about emotions, which in turn was associated with greater behavioral social avoidance and cognitive nonsocial avoidance, and these kinds of greater avoidance translated into higher gaming addiction. Moreover, exercisers with emotional abuse and neglect had more negative beliefs about emotions, which in turn was associated with greater behavioral social avoidance, and this greater avoidance translated into higher exercise addiction. However, those with emotional abuse and neglect had more negative beliefs about emotions, which in turn was associated with greater behavioral nonsocial avoidance, and this greater behavioral nonsocial avoidance translated into lower exercise addiction. The clinical implications, limitations and recommendations for further studies were discussed.