Relationships between parental bonding patterns and psychopathology were examined. 347 healthy young men, who had both parents, completed both the Parental Bonding Instrument(PBI) and the Symptom Check List-90-Revised(SCL-90-R). Relations between two ...
Relationships between parental bonding patterns and psychopathology were examined. 347 healthy young men, who had both parents, completed both the Parental Bonding Instrument(PBI) and the Symptom Check List-90-Revised(SCL-90-R). Relations between two sets of variables were examined by means of the Pearson's correlation coefficient. It was suggested that the relationship with their mothers had more influence on the psychopathology of young men than the relationship with their fathers. And, then, the subjects were classified into 4 groups by maternal bonding patterns in terms of the overprotection and the care.
The scales of somatization, obsessive compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoia, psychosis were significantly higher in group 4, whose mothers had been overprotective and less careful, than in group 2, whose mothers had been careful and not overprotective. The scales of depression, anxiety, paranoia, and psychosis were significantly higher in group 3, whose mothers had been less careful and not overprotective, than in group 2. The scale of paranoia was significantly higher in group 1, whose mothers had been careful and overprotective, than in group 2. The results supported that among 4 maternal bonding types, the high care-low overprotection type had most favorable influence on the psychopathology of the young men, and the low care-high overprotection one had worst influence on the psychopathology of young men.