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early maladaptive schemes in Misophonia

In a 2023 study, Stalias-Mantzikos attempted to identify early maladaptive schemas characteristic of misophonia by administering the YSQ-SF and the NYMS to a non-clinical community sample of 286 adults (65% female) recruited via social media. They found that Misophonia is best characterized by a transdiagnostic EMS profile that overlaps broadly with anxiety and depression (particularly schemas involving social disconnection, rejection, and difficulties with autonomy and independence), shows limited overlap with OCD primarily via insufficient self-control (i.e., difficulties with impulse and emotion regulation), and is partially differentiated by other-directedness schemas (reflecting patterns of prioritizing others’ needs or social expectations), rather than by any single disorder-specific schema (Stalias-Mantzikos et al., 2023).