Ragan P V, McGlashan T H
Am J Psychiatry. 1986 Feb;143(2):153-7. doi: 10.1176/ajp.143.2.153.
Childhood parental death has frequently been linked with adult mental disorders--mostly depression. The authors found no association with psychiatric diagnosis among 72 inpatients who had experienced the death of a parent when they were children, compared with 460 other patients in the Chestnut Lodge Follow-Up Study. The patients with a childhood parental death did, however, have significantly greater family pathology and impaired social and heterosexual functioning. These results refute the view that childhood parental death is singularly casual of adult psychopathology but support its role in a multidetermining matrix of contributing factors.
童年时期父母死亡常常与成人精神障碍——主要是抑郁症——相关联。在栗树屋随访研究中，与460名其他患者相比，研究作者发现在童年时期经历过父母死亡的72名住院患者中，不存在与精神疾病诊断的关联。然而，童年时期经历过父母死亡的患者确实存在明显更严重的家庭病态，以及社会和异性交往功能受损的情况。这些结果驳斥了童年时期父母死亡是成人精神病理学唯一诱因的观点，但支持了其在多种促成因素的决定因素矩阵中的作用。
