en پژوهشي Research <pre style="text-align:justify"> <span style="font-size:9pt"><span minion="" pro="" style="font-family:"><b>Introduction</b>: Domestic violence is one of the social problems that has deep and widespread influences on the mental and social health of its victims, especially women. The goal of this research A Structural equation model of psychological distress according to initial maladaptive schemas in women with domestic violence experience.</span></span> <span style="font-size:9pt"><span minion="" pro="" style="font-family:"><b>Materials & Methods</b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">: </span></span></b>The present research is a descriptive correlational study. The statistical society included 650 women referring to welfare social emergency departments in Tehran, in 2023 that were selected purposefully according to the criteria specified. In this research, 75-item questionnaires of Maladaptive Schema, short form of domestic violence screening scale) HITS (and psychological distress questionnaire and Demographic instrument were exploited. In this research, the structural equation model technique has been used. Model validity test, factor loading and path coefficients were also examined.&nbsp; The data was analyzed with the help of AMOS 24 software.<span lang="FA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></span></span> <span style="font-size:9pt"><span minion="" pro="" style="font-family:"><b>Results</b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">: &nbsp;</span></span></b>according to the value of the path coefficient in the state of standard estimation between disconnection / rejection schema with psychological distress (&beta;=0.47, P<0.05), self-direction schema with psychological distress (&beta;=0.76, P<0.05), other-directedness schema with psychological distress (&beta;=0.54, P<0.05) and hyper vigilance schema with psychological distress (&beta;=0.61, P<0.05) in women with experience of domestic violence, a direct and significant relationship was observed. No significant relationship was found only in the impaired limitation schema and psychological distress.</span></span> <span style="font-size:9pt"><span minion="" pro="" style="font-family:"><b>Conclusion</b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">: &nbsp;</span></span></b>The results of the research showed that initial maladaptive schemas can act as an important predictive factor in the psychological distress of women experienced domestic violence.</span></span> </pre> Psychological Distress, Domestic Violence, Schemas 1 11 http://jbrms.medilam.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-912-7&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Zahra Bahrami bahrami_zahra2020@yahoo.com 10031947532846008020 0009-0008-9754-5635 No Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Parvaneh Ghodsi elham_ghodsi@yahoo.com 10031947532846008021 0009-0008-7405-6214 Yes Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Fariba Hassani hassani.fariba@gmail.com 10031947532846008022 10031947532846008022 No Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran