PERCEPTIONS OF PARENTAL BONDING IN PATIENTS WITH VARIOUS PERSONALITY-DISORDERS, LIFETIME DEPRESSIVE-DISORDERS, AND HEALTHY CONTROLS

The aims of the present study was (a) to examine the relationship betw een parental bonding and various personality disorders, when the effec t of a lifetime depressive disorder was statistically controlled for, and (b) to examine the relationship between parental bonding and a lif etime depressive disorder when the effects of various personality diso rders were accounted for, The study included 135 psychiatric outpatien ts and 41 healthy controls. The patients were diagnosed according to D SNI-III-R axis I and axis II. Results indicated that obsessive-compuls ive personality disorder was associated with reports of lower levels o f paternal care and higher levels of paternal overprotection, while cl uster B personality disorder was associated with reports of high paren tal overprotection. Avoidant, dependent, and cluster A personality dis orders were not associated with abnormal parental bonding. Lifetime de pressive disorders were associated with reports of low maternal care a nd high maternal overprotection when the effect of a personality disor der was accounted for.