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Negative and positive schemas
Within cognitive psychology, negative and positive schemas are associated with mental health. Negative self schema can be a characteristic that is correlated with depression, anxiety, and personality disorders. Someone with negative schema filters their self beliefs in a negative manner. Due to negative life experiences and parent attachment styles may cause cynical beliefs about themselves. When a child experience abandonment, social isolation, and other unmet emotional needs, it can contribute to a negative self-belief.

EMS
Chronic mental health issues, according to the schema therapy paradigm, are related with persons who have maladaptive mental representations of themselves and others that stem from unfavorable early life experiences. These mental representations are known as early maladaptive schemas (EMS) and reflect problematic themes or patterns pertaining too oneself and one's relationships. Although the name EMS indicates that these maladaptive schemas originate early in life, EMS really represent current mental processes. The notion that maladaptive schemas emerge early is a theoretical premise of the schema treatment paradigm that needs empirical support.

Relationships and Interpersonal Schemas
Numerous studies have shown that unfavorable self-schemas, particularly those relating to interpersonal content, are well-organized and seem to be consistent risk factors for depression. This dysfunctional relationship structure may also be changed with appropriate therapies. The dyadic partner-schema model is introduced, and some empirical findings pertinent to this conceptualization are emphasized. This model explains how self- and partner-schemas affect relationship functioning. Relationship issues are frequent in depression and are both a risk factor for the condition and one of its effects. Relationship issues are linked to a variety of detrimental effects for those who suffer from depression, including a higher chance of relapsing and a worse response to psychological and pharmacological therapies. The dyadic partner-schema model was recently created to account for relationship distress in depression.