title: Parental characteristics in relation to depressive disorders.
abstract: Using a reliable and valid measure of reported parental care and overprotection (the Parental Bonding Instrument) patients with two types of depressive disorder were compared with a control group, and the relationships to depressive experience examined in a non-clinical group as well. Bipolar manic-depressive patients scored like controls whereas neurotic depressives reported less parental care and greater maternal overprotection. Depressive experience in the non-clinical group was negatively associated with low parental care and weakly associated with parental overprotection.
mesh_terms: D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D002668:Child Rearing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires