Young Adult Children of Alcoholic Fathers: Depressive Experiences, Coping Styles, and Family Systems.

Surveyed college students with (n=84) and without (n=123) alcoholic fathers regarding their perceptions of their families, depressive experiences, and coping styles within developmental model of depression that focuses on object representations. Subjects with alcoholic fathers exhibited greater introjective depression but no increase in anaclitic depression. Subjects with alcoholic fathers also relied more on aggressive defenses. (Author/NB)