Parental rearing style: examining for links with personality vulnerability factors for depression
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Social psychiatry. Sozialpsychiatrie. Psychiatrie sociale
- Vol. 28 (3) , 97-100
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00801738
Abstract
Recent research provides evidence of links between anomalous parenting experiences in childhood and subsequent depression. A study was designed to pursue the possibility that anomalous parenting effects a diathesis to depression by inducing a vulnerable cognitive style rather than by disposing directly to depression. Possible mediating personality style variables were explored in a study of 123 depressed subjects who scored their parents on the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), as well as completing a state depression and several relevant personality measures. Low self-esteem and a related dysfunctional cognitive style were the personality variables most clearly linked with PBI scores, with links persisting after partialling out state levels of depression. Failure to find links between PBI scores and depression levels limited explication of the diathesis stress model.Keywords
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