title: Perception of early parenting by patients diagnosed avoidant personality disorder: a test of the overprotection hypothesis.
abstract: The perceptions of their parents by patients diagnosed avoidant personality disorder (DSM-III) and matched normal subjects were compared. The overprotection hypothesis proposed by Parker was not found to predict the perceptions of patients diagnosed avoidant personality disorder. Social introversion in patients was found to be related to perceptions of their parents as shaming, guilt-engendering and intolerant.
authors.affiliation: Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stravynski
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Elie
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Franche
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001362:Avoidance Learning; D005260:Female; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012649:Self Concept