Exploring Relationships Between Recalled Parenting and Anaclitic and Introjective Depression

This study related college students' remembered early relationships with parents to their depression symptoms and to dependent and self-critical subjective feelings. Undergraduates (N = 217, 118 female, 99 male) provided information regarding their current level of depression, overall functioning, subjective feelings of depression (Depressive Experiences Questionnaire), negative thoughts, interpersonal functioning, and recollections of their parents' behavior and attitudes. Depression symptoms were related to dependent and self-critical feelings and to recalled low parental care and high parental control. However, for women, paternal affection and, for men, paternal control, were unrelated to depression symptoms. Other results are inconclusive but, overall, provide evidence for the usefulness of Blatt's theory in assessing depression via dependent and self-critical subjective feelings.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2000

Author dc:creator

• Weisz, Adriana V.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jenkins, Sharon Rae
• Cox, Randall J.
• Watkins, C. Edward

• Depression, Mental.
• Parenting.
• College students -- Psychology.
• depression
• parenting
• parental affection
• parental control
• college students

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Weisz, Adriana V.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 47244399
untcat: b2302314
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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