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Parental 'affectionless control' as an antecedent to adult depression: a risk factor refined
A Mackinnon1, A S Henderson, G Andrews
1NH&MRC Social Psychiatry Research Unit, Australian National University, Canberra.
Psychological Medicine
|February 1, 1993
Abstract:
It has been well established that individuals with a history of depression report their parents as being less caring and more overprotective of them than do controls. 'Affectionless control' in childhood has thus been proposed as a risk factor for depression. Evidence is presented from a logistic regression analysis of data from a volunteer community sample that lack of care rather than over-protection is the primary risk factor. No evidence for an interaction effect of low care and over-protection was found.