title: Parental representations of depressed outpatients from a U.S.A. sample.
abstract: A case-control study of adult depressed outpatients derived from a U.S. sample confirmed previous Australian reports of a significantly greater likelihood for depressives to report an earlier lack of parental care as well as parental overprotection. Only 32% of the patients, as against 62% of the non-psychiatric controls, reported 'optimal bonding', as defined by the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), from one or both parents. By contrast 62% of the depressives and 27% of the controls reported exposure to PBI-defined 'affectionless control' from one or both parents. As in previous studies, a raw PBI care score of less than 10 was highly discriminating, being reported by 32% of the depressives and only 3% of the controls.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Plantes
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Prusoff
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brennan
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Parker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States