Keyword: «vulnerability»

The relevance of the study is determined by the need to find ways to correct high personal anxiety in people with early maladaptive schemes. The aim of the work is to find a connection between the locus of control and the manifestation of early maladaptive schemes. A brief description of some early maladaptive schemes is given. The main theoretical aspects of the concept of the locus of control are considered. The data of our own empirical study on a sample of adults with different maladaptive schemes are presented, which reveal a correlation between the severity of early maladaptive schemes manifestation and the localization of the control locus. The result of studies aimed at examination the relationship between the locus of control and the level of manifestation of such early maladaptive schemes as "vulnerability", "failure", "social alienation" is presented.