title: Self-defeating personality and memories of parents' child-rearing behavior: a replication.
abstract: A recent study of correlations of self-defeating personality and memories of parents' child-rearing behaviour has been replicated on a larger sample. Non-clinical volunteers (145 women and 114 men) were administered Schill's Self-defeating Personality Scale and a short version of the EMBU-Egna Minnen Beträffande Uppfostran (own memories of parental education) scale. Replicating previous findings, memories of rejecting or nonsupportive parents were significantly correlated with scores for the Self-defeating Personality Scale for both women (rejecting mother, r = 24; supportive mother, r = -.29; rejecting father, r = .23; supportive father, r = -.36) and men (rejecting mother, r = 40; rejecting father, r = .41; supportive father, r = -.28). Memories of an overinvolved parent were significantly correlated with self-defeating personality scores only among men (mother: r = .41; father: r = .36) as in the original study.
authors.affiliation: University of Rome-Tor Vergata, Italy.
authors.forename: I Alex
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Rubino
authors.forename: Bianca
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pezzarossa
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Della Rosa
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Siracusano
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002668:Child Rearing / Q000523:psychology*; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D008568:Memory; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010332:Paternal Behavior; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results