Perceived parental rearing practices in depressed patients in relation to social class

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Abstract
The occurrence of possible differences in rearing practices related to social class was investigated in a series of 125 depressed patients by means of a special inventory-the EMBU [Egna Minnen av Barndoms Uppfostran-Own memories of (parental) rearing practices in childhood]-constructured by the present group. Three factors derived from the EMBU in the course of previous studies: rejection, emotional warmth, overproduction were taken into account. The rearing practices experienced by subjects belonging to different social classes did not differ concerning emotional warmth. Subjects belonging to the higher social classes scores their parents higher on the variables rejection and overprotection. Since emotional warmth proved in an earlier study to discriminate between depressives and healthy controls, the difference cannot have been biased by possible differences in social class.