title: Attachment histories for people with characteristics of self-defeating personality.
abstract: Correlations of undergraduates' responses (79 men, 79 women) to the Self-defeating Personality Scale and Gough and Heilbrun's Adjective Check List indicated people who had more characteristics of self-defeating personality were more likely to recall ambivalent and avoidant attachment histories regarding their mothers. There was a tendency for men to recall avoidant attachment histories for fathers as well. These results lend some support to Glickhauf-Hughes and Wells who in 1991 contended being reared in an unpredictable environment by parents who are ambivalent contributes to the development of self-defeating personality. The rs suggest these characteristics are related to cold and rejecting parenting as well.
authors.affiliation: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale 62901-6502.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schill
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008398:Masochism; D009289:Narcissism; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept