objective: this project aimed to study early maladaptive schemas in adults with parents afflicted with schizophrenia. methods: in a causal-comparative study, a sample of 39 adults with one schizophrenic parent as the experiment group and 40 students without schizophrenic parents as the control group were selected. both groups completed early maladaptive schema questionnaire. descriptive statist...

For a relation that violates a set of functional dependencies, we consider the task of finding a maximum number of pairwise-consistent tuples, or what is known as a “cardinality repair.” We present a polynomial-time algorithm that, for certain fixed relation schemas (with functional dependencies), computes a cardinality repair. Moreover, we prove that on any of the schemas not covered by the al...

There has been growing awareness of the high prevalence of negative cognitions about the self in patients with persecutory delusions, and it has been proposed that paranoid fears build upon these perceived vulnerabilities. This study aimed to investigate for the first time a wide range of different conceptualisations of the negative self, and to examine associations with suicidal ideation, in p...