The Relation Between Perceived Parental Rearing and Dysfunctional Attitudes in Unipolar Depressive Inpatients.

The relation between parental rearing behavior and cognitive distortions (according to Beck's theory of depression) in adult life has been examined in a sample of 185 depressed inpatients. Especially such parental rearing factors as rejection, maternal shaming and guilt-engendering, tolerance, affection and stimulating showed highly significant correlations with the factors depressogenic information processing, perfectionistic attitudes and self-esteem depending on the approval of others from the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale WAS). The results both confirm aspects of cognitively-oriented diathesis-stress models and of the integrative vulnerability model by Perris. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]