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Perceived parental styles in a Japanese sample of depressive disorders

A replication outside Western culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Tetsuy Sato ,
Kaoru Sakado ,
Toru Uehara ,
Kazuo Nishioka  and
Yomishi Kasahara
Tetsuy Sato*
Affiliation:
Fujita Health University, School of Medicine
Kaoru Sakado
Affiliation:
Niigata City General Hospital, Niigata, Japan
Toru Uehara
Affiliation:
Niigata City General Hospital, Niigata, Japan
Kazuo Nishioka
Affiliation:
Fujita Health University, School of Medicine
Yomishi Kasahara
Affiliation:
Fujita Health University, School of Medicine
*
Dr Tetsuya Sato, Department of Psychiatry, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Dengakugakubo 1-98, Kutusukake, Toyoake City, 470-11, Japan
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Abstract

Background

Dysfunctional parental styles, as measured by the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), have been associated with adult depression in Western cultures. This study sought to determine whether such parental styles are also associated with adult depression in a non-Western society.

Method

PBI scores and parental styles assessed by PBI quadrants were explored in 51 Japanese depressive patients and controls in a matched, case-control design.

Results

Low care and high protection scores were associated not with melancholic but with non-melancholic depression. Subjects exposed to dysfunctional parental styles demonstrated a high risk for non-melancholic depression.

Conclusions

These data suggest that the association between dysfunctional parental styles on PBI and non-melancholic depression may be independent of cultural differences.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 170 , Issue 2 , February 1997 , pp. 173 - 175
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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