Attachment and depression: the relationship between the felt security of attachment and clinical depression among hospitalized female adolescents.
BACKGROUND
To examine the attachment construct in terms of felt security, angry distress and perceived unavailability in hospitalized depressed adolescent females.


METHODS
A case comparison study of 51 adolescent females with depression and 22 adolescent females with other diagnoses was investigated.


RESULTS
In a multivariable logistic regression model, lower selfesteem, lower peer support, greater angry distress and perceived unavailability in interaction with family type increased the likelihood of membership in the depressed group.


CONCLUSIONS
Absence of felt security increases the chances of having a diagnosis of depression.
Cawnthorpe
David
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Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Galgary.
West
Malcolm
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Wilkes
Thomas
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