Parental Perceptions and Psychopathology
作者:
ROBERT BORNSTEIN,
RICHARD O'NEILL,
期刊:
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
(OVID Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 180,
issue 8
页码: 475-483
ISSN:0022-3018
年代: 1992
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Various theories of personality and psychopathology hypothesize that there should be a relationship between parental perceptions and level of psychopathology. However, there has been relatively little research investigating the parental perceptions-psychopathology relationship, and much of the research in this area has been methodologically flawed. The present study tested four hypotheses regarding the parental perceptions-psychopathology relationship, using a parental representations measure that circumvents many of the problems that have characterized previous research on this topic. Results indicated that psychiatric patients (N= 66): a) viewed both parents more negatively than did members of a matched sample of 66 normal subjects; b) expressed significantly greater ambivalence regarding both parents than did normal subjects; and c) described both parents at a more primitive conceptual level than did normal subjects. As predicted, there was a parallel relationship between perceptions of the parents and overall level of psychopathology within the inpatient sample. The findings are discussed in the context of traditional trait-oriented personality theories as well as more recent social learning theories of personality.
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