Parental overprotection engenders dysfunctional attitudes about achievement and dependency in a gender-specific manner

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. The subjects were 665 Japa...

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Published in:BMC psychiatry 2013-12, Vol.13 (1), p.345-345, Article 345
Main Authors: Otani, Koichi, Suzuki, Akihito, Matsumoto, Yoshihiko, Shibuya, Naoshi, Sadahiro, Ryoichi, Enokido, Masanori
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Achievement
Adult
Age
Attitude
Attitudes
Child psychology
Child welfare
Cognitive ability
Daughters
Depression - psychology
Female
Gender
Humans
Male
Methods
Object Attachment
Parent-Child Relations
Parenting
Parenting - psychology
Parents - psychology
Personality
Psychiatry
Self control
Sex Factors
Students
Studies
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Summary: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. 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. Higher scores of the Achievement (β = 0.293, p 
ISSN:1471-244X
1471-244X
DOI:10.1186/1471-244X-13-345