effect of early maladaptive schemas on attention bias

You’re invited to take part in research to help us better understand Schema Therapy

(and gain a chance to win one of two $100 gift cards by completing the schema questionnaire)

Schema Therapy helps individuals identify unhelpful life patterns driven by mental representations about the world, the self, and other people . These representations are called ‘Early Maladaptive Schemas’ (EMS) Everyone has a unique combination of EMS. This study examines the effect of having a particularly strong EMS on your ability to control your attention

Participation in this research involves:

• An online questionnaire which measures the strength of two EMS: Emotional Deprivation schema, and Unrelenting Standards schema

• Completing an online cognitive task (Emotional Stroop Test) which involves quickly identifying the colour of emotive words on a screen, using keyboard button presses.

You may be eligible to participate if you:

• Are aged 18 years and up

• Right hand dominant

• Fluent in English

• Have access to internet connected desktop computer or laptop with keyboard, preferably in quiet, undisturbed setting (this research is completed entirely remotely

• Do not suffer from colour blindness, synaesthesia (condition where one sense involuntarily triggers another), fine motor control impairment or an uncorrected visual impairment

• Have not experienced suicidal ideation in past month (thoughts of being better off dead or of hurting self)

Learn more about your unique pattern of EMS by receiving a copy of your questionnaire results!

This Project has been approved by the UniSA Human Ethics Research Committee

(Ethics protocol 205464)

To read the participant information sheet, click here

TO PARTICIPATE CLICK HERE: https://unisasurveys.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3qItBbGZcK6M2Uu

For more information contact Alannah Jones : jonac002@mymail.unisa.edu.au