Mireault G C, Bond L A
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Johnson State College, Vt.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1992 Oct;62(4):517-24. doi: 10.1037/h0079371.
College students who had experienced the death of a parent during their childhoods perceived themselves as more vulnerable to future losses than did a nonbereaved control group. Perceived vulnerability to loss was identified as a better predictor of adult anxiety and depression than was the early loss itself. Perceived vulnerability to loss is thus implicated in the development of adult psychopathology associated with early loss.
