Parental ‘affectionless control’ as an antecedent to adult depression: a risk factor refined
- 1 February 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 23 (1) , 135-141
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700038927
Abstract
Synopsis It has been well established that individuals with a history of depression report their parents as being less caring and more overprotective of them than do controls. ‘Affectionless control’ in childhood has thus been proposed as a risk factor for depression. Evidence is presented from a logistic regression analysis of data from a volunteer community sample that lack of care rather than over-protection is the primary risk factor. No evidence for an interaction effect of low care and over-protection was found.Keywords
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