Pa. Vogel et al., RECOLLECTIONS OF PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS IN OCD OUT-PATIENTS COMPARED TO DEPRESSED OUT-PATIENTS AND HEALTHY CONTROLS, Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica, 96(6), 1997, pp. 469-474
The present study examined the relationship between parental bonding i
n 26 psychiatric out-patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
compared to 34 out-patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and
41 healthy controls. The results indicated significantly lower levels
of parental care and higher levels of maternal overprotection for the
patients with a current principal diagnosis of depression, compared to
healthy controls. In multiple regression analyses, the presence of de
pressive disorder was related to all Parental Bonding Inventory (PBI)
subscales. When the presence of current depressive disorder was contro
lled for statistically, the diagnosis of OCD was not associated with a
bnormal patterns of parental bonding on the PBI.