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Personality: dark traits and pathology

Young Schema Questionnaire.

YSQ (YSQ-L3 / YSQ-S3)

What it measures
Early maladaptive schemas - 18 schemas grouped into five schema domains (disconnection/rejection, impaired autonomy, impaired limits, other-directedness, overvigilance/inhibition)
Length and format
232 (YSQ-L3 long); 90 (YSQ-S3 short); 205 (YSQ-L2); 75 (YSQ-S2). 6-pt Likert (how well the statement describes you) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
30+ langs approx incl. NL, DE, FR, ES, IT, TR, FA, ZH, JA, DA, NO, PL, PT, EL, RO, RS/HR
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - author permission

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Reference
Young JE, Klosko JS, Weishaar ME. Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide. New York: Guilford Press; 2003.

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