Young Compensation Inventory:

Informal Clinical Scoring Instructions

To score this inventory, we simply circle all items with a high rating of "5" or "6". These
represent the ways the patient overcompensates for emotions connected with his or her
schemas. We discuss each of these high-rated items with the patient, asking for examples of
when the patient can remember using this compensatory strategy. We then try to help the
patient identify which schemas the patient is compensating for through these coping strategies.

The same form of overcompensation could be used to cope with many different schemas. Thus,
there is not a one-to-one correspondence between each item on the YCI and any schema.
However, the table below lists some of the most common schemas associated with each of the
items on the YCI, based on our clinical observation.

2, 5, 40 Defectiveness / Shame

1, 3, 4, 42, 47 Mistrust / Abuse

6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Defectiveness / Shame; Failure; Social Isolation

11, 12 Emotional Deprivation

13 Abandonment / Instability; Vulnerability; Negativity / Pessimism; Unrelenting Standards

14, 15 Vulnerability; Negativity / Pessimism; Unrelenting Standards

16 Unrelenting Standards; Subjugation

17, 18, 23, 29, 30, 33 Subjugation

19 Subjugation; Unrelenting Standards

20 Dependence / Incompetence; Mistrust / Abuse; Emotional Deprivation

21 Dependence / Incompetence; Subjugation; Enmeshment / Undeveloped Self

22 Insufficient Self-Control / Self-Discipline; Abandonment / Instability; Subjugation

24 Insufficient Self-Control / Self-Discipline; Subjugation; Entitlement

25, 27 Emotional Deprivation; Mistrust; Self-Sacrifice; Subjugation

26 Unrelenting Standards

28 Emotional Deprivation; Abandonment / Instability

31, 32 Subjugation; Unrelenting Standards; Social Isolation; Approval-Seeking

34, 39 Defectiveness / Shame; Mistrust / Abuse

35 Defectiveness / Shame; Mistrust / Abuse; Dependence / Incompetence

36 Abandonment/ Instability

37, 38 Subjugation; Mistrust / Abuse

41 Defectiveness / Shame; Failure

43 Negativity / Pessimism

44 Defectiveness/ Shame; Negativity / Pessimism

45 Defectiveness / Shame; Emotional Deprivation; Unrelenting Standards

46 Mistrust / Abuse; Emotional Deprivation

48 Defectiveness / Shame; Emotional Deprivation; Abandonment / Instability; Mistrust /

Abuse; Subjugation