title: Parental bonding and depressive disorders in adolescents.
abstract: The present exploratory study was designed to determine whether a sample of depressed adolescents differed from demographically similar samples of normal and non-depressed psychiatric controls as a function of their perceived patterns of parental bonding. All research participants were recruited from the general population. Diagnoses were based on a structured diagnostic interview keyed to DSM-III criteria. Parental bonding was assessed using the Parental Bonding Instrument [PBI; Parker, G. Tupling, H. & Brown, L.B. (1979). A parental bonding instrument. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 52, 1-10]. The results of this study suggest that parental bonding plays an important but non-specific role in the occurrence of adolescent psychopathology.
authors.affiliation: Duke University Medical Centre, Durham, North Carolina.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Burbach
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kashani
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Rosenberg
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012307:Risk Factors