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May 01-03, 2017 Toronto, Canada
17th World Summit on
Positive Psychology, Psychotherapy &
Cognitive Behavioral Sciences
Volume 7, Issue 2 (Suppl) J Psychol Psychother
ISSN: 2161-0487 JPP, an open access journal Positive Psychology 2017
May 01-03, 2017
Khaoula Mammad et al., J Psychol Psychother 2017, 7:2 (Suppl)
Study of anxious profile among Moroccan students
Khaoula Mammad1, Azzaoui F-Z2, Ahami A 1 and Boulbaroud S3
1Ibn Tofail University, Morocco
2University of Hassan II Casablanca, Morocco
3Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco
Introduction: Anxiety is characterized by feelings of apprehension, tension, discomfort, and fear of facing a risk of indeterminate
nature. It must be distinguished from the fear that meets a real threatening situation. Moreover, schemas are the organized
general representations of the experience intended to facilitate information processing: Filtering and selection, organization,
recovery. Any dysfunction in these schemas could affect the normal neurocognitive and behavioral status.
Aim: To study the relationship between the activated/deactivated inadequate early maladaptive schemas and anxiety among
students.
Subjects, Materials & Methods: The present study is a cross-sectional study conducted among 212 students, aged 17 to 25
years, randomly selected from different institutions of the IBN TOFAIL University, located in the city of Kenitra (NW of
Morocco). Two neurocognitive tests are used: The Beck Anxiety Inventory to evaluate anxiety & the short version of the early
maladaptive schema questionnaire of Schmidt, Joiner, Young and Telch (1995) which was translated in French by Rusinek
(2000) to evaluate the activated and deactivated schemas.
Result: The obtained results showed that the activation of inadequate early maladaptive schemas is correlated with the Beck
Anxiety Inventory: Emotional deprivation (p<0.05) Isolation (p=0.001) and insufficient self-control (p<0.01), abandon
(p=0.001), vulnerability (p<0.05), fear of losing control (p<0.05).
Conclusion: Emotional deprivation, isolation, insufficient self-control, abandon, vulnerability, fear of losing control are found
activated and correlated to anxiety among studied population. Deeper investigations are needed to understand this relationship
and also to study the other possible factors that could affect this important neuro-cognitive function.
Biography
Khaoula Mammad is currently pursuing her PhD from Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra (North-West of the Kingdom). Her Master’s degree research study was about
early maladaptive schema and their effect on the academic performance and working memory and currently conducting a research about autism among Moroccan
children. She had 2 abstracts published in European Psychiatry, in relation to the first study and 2 research articles are in progress.