Do perceived parenting styles influence stress coping in patients with major depressive disorders?
✍ Scribed by Uehara, Toru ;Sakado, Kaoru ;Sato, Tetsuya ;Someya, Toshiyuki
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 72 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0748-8386
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✦ Synopsis
Parenting styles can in¯uence an individual's ability to cope with stress; consequently, coping strategies may moderate the interaction between stress and psychiatric disorders. The correlation between perceived parenting styles and stress-coping strategies in 50 outpatients in remission from major depressive disorders was investigated. Using multiple regression analysis including symptoms, gender and age of subjects as independent variables, maternal care and male gender were signi®cant variables for predicting task-oriented coping strategies ( p 5 0.05). Low maternal care and highly overprotective parenting were signi®cant variables for predicting emotion-oriented coping strategies ( p 5 0.05). These ®ndings suggest that perceived parenting styles of the mother experienced in childhood may be related to stress-coping styles in adulthood. It should nevertheless be considered whether parents' actual childrearing methods aect their ospring's ability to cope with stress or whether an individual who retrospectively perceives a lack of parental aection tends to use more emotion-oriented coping and less task-oriented coping.