Abstract

Doc number: 345

Abstract

Background: It has been suggested that dysfunctional attitudes, cognitive vulnerability to depression, have developmental origins. The present study examined the effects of parental rearing on dysfunctional attitudes in three areas of life with special attention to gender specificity.

Methods: The subjects were 665 Japanese healthy volunteers. Dysfunctional attitudes were assessed by the 24-item Dysfunctional Attitude Scale, which has the Achievement, Dependency and Self-control subscales. Perceived parental rearing was assessed by the Parental Bonding Instrument, which has the Care and Protection subscales.

Results: Higher scores of the Achievement (β = 0.293, p < 0.01 ) and Dependency (β = 0.224, p < 0.05 ) subscales were correlated with higher scores of the Protection subscale in the combination of mother and daughter, but not in other combinations of parents and recipients. Scores of the Self-control subscale were not correlated with paternal or maternal rearing scores.

Conclusions: The present study suggests that parental overprotection engenders dysfunctional attitudes about achievement and dependency in a gender-specific manner.

Details

Title
Parental overprotection engenders dysfunctional attitudes about achievement and dependency in a gender-specific manner
Author
Suzuki, Koichi Otani, Akihito; Matsumoto, Yoshihiko; Shibuya, Naoshi; Sadahiro, Ryoichi; Enokido, Masanori
Pages
345
Publication year
2013
Publication date
2013
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
1471244X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-13-345
ProQuest document ID
1475264988
Copyright
© 2013 Suzuki et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.