EARLY MALADAPTIVE SCHEMAS IN THE GENESIS OF ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR
The paper covers the review and analysis of the theoretical concepts concerning the psychological mechanisms of development of addictive behavior of an individual that is caused largely by the impact of early emotional-cognitive maladaptive schemas. The purpose of the paper is to identify and describe, in the result of the theoretical analysis, the specific arguments highlighting the influence of the specificity of the psychic phenomenon of an individual, in particular, early maladaptive schemas, on the occurrence of its addictive behavior. The importance and relevance of the concepts examined are primarily caused by the rapid growth of the dependent forms of the population's behavior, especially of the young people, what not only destroys the physical and mental health of the future generation but also poses a serious threat to the national security of the country. These theoretical works, including the results of the foreign empirical studies of early maladaptive schemas of addicts, allow analyzing a complex of distinctive nonadaptive characteristics and qualities of the dependent individuals that violate the optimal functionality of an individual in the society, what is primarily caused by the violation of the child-parent system of relations. The results and conclusions of the empirical and theoretical studies of the researchers devoted their research activity to the study of the addictive personalities and the individual characteristics of their emotional, cognitive and behavioral spheres allowed concluding about the role of the influence of nonadaptive beliefs and affective reactions on the genesis of addictive behavior as the developed strategy for coping of a person with the subjectively intolerable, intense impressions and experiences.