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Parental Bonding and Depressive Disorders in Adolescents
Author(s) -
Burbach Daniel J.,
Kashani Javad H.,
Rosenberg Tomas K.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1989.tb00255.x
Subject(s) - psychology , psychopathology , clinical psychology , population , psychiatry , depression (economics) , exploratory research , developmental psychology , medicine , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics , sociology , anthropology
The present exploratory study was designed 10 determine whether a sample of depressed adolescents differed from demographically similar samples of normal and non‐depressed psychiatric controls as a function of their perceived patterns of parental bonding. All research participants were recruited from the general population Diagnosis were based on a structured diagnostic interview, keyed to DSM‐III criteria. Parental bonding was assessed using the Parental Bonding Instrument PHI; Parker, C. Tupling, H. & Brown, L. B. (1979). A parental bonding instrument. British Journal of Medical Psychology , 52 , 1–10. The results of this study suggest that parental bonding plays an important but non‐specific role in the occurrence of adolescent psychopathology.