title: Relationships between depression and attachment styles in parent- and institution-reared Turkish children.
abstract: The present study, using a sample of Turkish children, aimed to test two attachment-theory predictions: (a) institution-reared children who were separated from their parents at an early age are less likely to have secure attachment schemata than children from two-parent families, and (b) depressive schemata are positively related to insecure attachment schemata and negatively related to secure attachment schemata. Following a systems-theory perspective, we also predicted that the relationship between depression and attachment styles would be stronger for institution-reared children than for children from two-parent families. Hazan and Shaver's (1987) attachment-style items and the Beck Depression Inventory were administered to 20 institution-reared and 20 parent-reared boys by a female interviewer. The results supported the first two predictions of the study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University, Turkey.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hortaçsu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cesur
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oral
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002674:Child, Institutionalized / Q000523:psychology*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010553:Personality Development; D014421:Turkey