title: Correlates of interpersonal dependency and detachment in an adolescent inpatient sample.
abstract: Interpersonal dependency has been linked to psychological distress, depression, help seeking, treatment compliance, and sensitivity to interpersonal cues in adult samples. However, there is a dearth of research focusing on dependency in child and adolescent samples. The current study examined the construct validity of a measure of interpersonal dependency. The authors investigated how interpersonal dependency and detachment relate to behavioral problems, subjective well-being, interpersonal problems, and global symptom severity in adolescent inpatients. Destructive overdependence (DO) and dysfunctional detachment (DD) were positively related to interpersonal distress, behavioral problems, and symptom severity and negatively related to psychological health and well-being. Healthy dependency (HD) was associated with fewer behavioral problems and less symptom severity and positively related to subjective well-being. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Van Tauber Institute for Global Psychiatry, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York.
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Haggerty
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan-Dearborn.
authors.forename: Caleb J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Siefert
authors.affiliation: Derner Institute of Advance Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York.
authors.forename: Robert F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Bornstein
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Samuel Justin
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Sinclair
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Blais
authors.affiliation: Van Tauber Institute for Global Psychiatry, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zodan
authors.affiliation: Van Tauber Institute for Global Psychiatry, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York.
authors.forename: Nyapati
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rao
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D009769:Object Attachment; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*