Department of Human Sciences, European University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Department of Psychology, University of Turin, via Verdi 10, 10124 Turin, Italy.
J Affect Disord. 2021 Sep 1;292:496-499. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.05.071. Epub 2021 Jun 5.
High levels of perceived parental over-protection are hypothesized to be related to relational problems, psychological distress, and development of psychiatric symptoms. Here, the main aim was to extend previous findings investigating the unique contribution of parental over-protection in predicting affective vulnerability.
296 students were recruited and tested individually. All participants were administered self-report measures assessing parental styles [i.e., The Measure of Parental Style (MOPS)], several clinical dimensions (i.e., depressive symptoms, trait anxiety and alexithymia), and a checklist assessing socio-demographic variables.
Affective vulnerability was investigated combining anxiety, depression and alexithymia through principal axis factoring which accounted for 70.90% of the variance of the data. All MOPS subscale were positively associated with all clinical dimensions (r > 0.13; p < 0.05) and with the Affective Vulnerability factor (r > 0.25; p < 0.001). Among different forms of dysfunctional parenting, only maternal (β = 0.19; p = 0.007) and paternal (β = 0.18; p = 0.010) over-protection were independently associated with Affective Vulnerability in the linear regression analysis, even when controlling for sex, age, and education.
All forms of dysfunctional parenting investigated were associated with affective vulnerability. However, at a multivariate level, only maternal and paternal over-protection remained independently associated with affective vulnerability. This study contributes to our understanding of the role of parental over-protection as a risk factor for the development of affective vulnerability and on the potentially pathogenic role played by this parental style in the development of clinical and sub-clinical conditions.
高水平的感知到的父母过度保护被假设与关系问题、心理困扰和精神症状的发展有关。在这里，主要目的是扩展以前的研究结果，调查父母过度保护在预测情感脆弱性方面的独特贡献。
招募并单独测试了 296 名学生。所有参与者都接受了自我报告的父母风格评估量表（即父母风格量表（MOPS））、几个临床维度（即抑郁症状、特质焦虑和述情障碍）以及评估社会人口统计学变量的检查表。
通过主成分因子分析结合焦虑、抑郁和述情障碍来研究情感脆弱性，该分析解释了数据方差的 70.90%。所有 MOPS 子量表都与所有临床维度（r > 0.13；p < 0.05）和情感脆弱性因子（r > 0.25；p < 0.001）呈正相关。在不同形式的功能失调养育中，只有母亲（β = 0.19；p = 0.007）和父亲（β = 0.18；p = 0.010）的过度保护与线性回归分析中的情感脆弱性独立相关，即使在控制了性别、年龄和教育程度之后也是如此。
研究中调查的所有形式的功能失调养育都与情感脆弱性有关。然而，在多变量水平上，只有母亲和父亲的过度保护与情感脆弱性独立相关。这项研究有助于我们理解父母过度保护作为情感脆弱性发展的风险因素的作用，以及这种父母风格在临床和亚临床状况发展中可能发挥的致病作用。
