Perceived parental rearing styles of agoraphobic and socially phobic in-patients.
The perceived parental rearing practices and attitudes of agoraphobics, social phobics and non-patient normal controls were investigated, employing the EMBU, an inventory for assessing memories of upbringing. Findings obtained previously with out-patients were replicated with in-patients as subjects. Compared with the controls, agoraphobics rated both their parents as having been less emotionally warm but only their mothers as having been rejective. Socially phobic in-patients rated both their parents as having been rejective, as having lacked emotional warmth, and as having been over-protective. Comparisons between agoraphobics and social phobics showed differences in certain aspects of parental rearing, with the socially phobic in-patients assigning ratings more negatively than the agoraphobic group.
Arrindell
W A
WA
Faculty of Medicine of the Vrije Universiteit, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Psychiatric Centre, The Netherlands.
Kwee
M G
MG
Methorst
G J
GJ
van der Ende
J
J
Pol
E
E
Moritz
B J
BJ
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000379:Agoraphobia / Q000523:psychology*; D002668:Child Rearing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D010556:Personality Tests; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors