Family risk factors, parental depression, and psychopathology in offspring.

Fendrich, Michael, Warner, Virginia, Weissman, Myrna M.·1990·Developmental Psychology

Abstract

Associations between parents' poor marital adjustment, parent-child discord, affectionless control, low family cohesion, and parental divorce and DSM-III diagnoses were explored in a study of 220 offspring of parents with and without major depression. Implications for the etiology of psychopathology and for analytic strategies are discussed

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Fendrich, M., Warner, V., & Weissman, M. M. (1990). Family risk factors, parental depression, and psychopathology in offspring. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037//0012-1649.26.1.40

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