المخططات المعرفية اللاتكيفية المبكرة كمنبئات بهروب الفتيات : دراسة مقارنة

الملخص EN

The runaway of girls from their families is a peculiar phenomenon to the Gulf societies that began to spread recently, especially among adolescent females.

There are many psychological, family, and social factors that can have a role in the teenage girl taking this act, which has serious implications for her, the family and threatens the community fabric as a whole.

This study aims to investigate the role of early maladaptive cognitive schema as predictor of the girls' runway in in Makka Al-Mukarramah region.

The sample of the study consisted of all runaway girls residing in the social care home in Jeddah(n=33) and control group of nonrunaway girls (n=44) with age ranging from 13 to 20 years old .Young's scale of early maladaptive cognitive schema and a demographic data form were applied to them.

Two independent samples t-test and discriminate analysis were used to for analysis of the data .

The study reached several results, including the existence of differences between runaways and non-runaway girls in early maladaptive cognitive schema in favor of runaways, and that the most early maladaptive cognitive schema predicting girl's runaway are emotional deprivation, mistrust abuse, and dependence and incompetence.

The study recommended developing programs that help adolescents to express their psychological and emotional difficulties, and the necessity of preventive education for families about the methods of successful socialization and methods of satisfying the needs of their children.