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Perceived Depriving Parental Rearing and Depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Carlo Perris ,
W. A. Arrindell ,
Hjördis Perris ,
Martin Eisemann ,
J. van der Ende  and
Lars von Knorring
Carlo Perris*
Affiliation:
WHO Collaborating Centre for Research & Training in Mental Health, Umeå University, Department of Psychiatry, S–901 85 Umeå, Sweden
W. A. Arrindell
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Psychology, Academic Hospital of the State University of Groningen, Oostersingel 59, 9713 EZ Groningen, The Netherlands
Hjördis Perris
Affiliation:
Umeå University, Department of Psychiatry
Martin Eisemann
Affiliation:
Umeå University, Department of Psychiatry
J. van der Ende
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Psychology, Academic Hospital of the State University of Groningen
Lars von Knorring
Affiliation:
MRC Research Fellow Umeå University, Department of Psychiatry, S–901 85 Umeå, Sweden
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

Four groups of depressed patients 47 unipolars, 21 bipolars, 34 with neurotic-reactive depression, and 39 with unspecified depressive disorder completed, after recovery, the EMBU, a Swedish instrument aimed at assessing the experience of parental rearing practices. The results for three factors: “rejection”, “emotional warmth” and “over-protection” and the global judgement scores of “severity” and “consistency” in rearing attitudes were compared with those obtained from 205 healthy individuals. Depressed patients, particularly in the unipolar unspecified groups rated both parents lower than the controls on emotional warmth. Patients tended also to rate their parents as less consistent in their rearing attitudes. The variables emotional warmth and overprotection allowed 64% of the patients and 72 of the unipolar depressives to be classified correctly. These results, like those of previous studies, support the hypothesis that deprivation of love during childhood represents an important psychological risk factor in the background of depressive disorders.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 148 , Issue 2 , February 1986 , pp. 170 - 175
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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