Investigating the relationship between university students' beliefs to marriage and perceived parental attitudes and early maladaptive schemas

In this study, the relationship between university students' dysfunctional beliefs about marriage, perceived parental attitudes and early maladaptive schemas were examined. The study group of the research consists of 652 university students studying at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University and Kırşehir Ahi Evran University and participating in the study voluntarily. Sociodemographic Form, Egna Minnen Barndoms Uppfostran (s-EMBU-C), Young Schema Scale-Short Form 3 and Marriage Relationship Beliefs Scale were used in the study. SPSS 26.0 program was used in the analysis of the data. t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson correlation analysis were used in the analysis of the study. As a result of the research, it was found that dysfunctional beliefs about marriage differ statistically significantly according to gender, university and parental education level. It was found that there was a positive and weakly significant relationship between dysfunctional beliefs about marriage and disconnection, impaired autonomy, unrelenting standards, other-directedness schema domains. In addition, a positive and significant relationship was found between parental attitudes, in which parents are perceived as rejecting and overprotective, and impaired autonomy, disconnection, impaired limits, unrelenting standards, and other-directedness schema domains. Also it was found that there is a significant negative relationship between the emotional warmth attitude perceived from the mother and the impaired autonomy and disconnection schema domains; between the emotional warmth attitude perceived from the father and the impaired autonomy, disconnection and other-directedness schema domains.