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The relationship of parental bonding to depression in patients with chronic pain

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Published/Copyright: December 1, 2010
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International Journal on Disability and Human Development
From the journal Volume 9 Issue 4

Abstract

Attachment theory is a theory of normal development as well as a theory of psychopathology. Attachment theory and research suggests that different types of parental bonding can be important determinants of illness behaviour, depression, pain perception and treatment response in individuals with chronic pain. Different types of parental bonding have been shown to be associated with specific personality characteristics and a variety of psychiatric disorders. We assessed 65 patients with chronic pain who visited the pain management unit of Larissa University Hospital in Greece. All patients completed the Parental Bonding Instrument, the Beck Depression Inventory and the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for pain. Results demonstrated that patients who reported an affectionless bond­ing (overprotective and insensitive) with their parents, and especially their mother, reported significantly greater depression and higher VAS scores. Conversely, chronic pain patients with an optimal parental bonding reported lower depression and VAS scores. These findings suggest that parental bonding style could be a useful construct for examining factors affecting psychiatric disorders and pain perception in patients with chronic pain.

Keywords: chronic pain; depression; parental bonding
Corresponding author: Penelope-Alexia Avagianou, BSc, MSc, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Laboratory of Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Received: 2010-8-2
Accepted: 2010-9-28
Published Online: 2010-12-01
Published in Print: 2010-12-01

©2010 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York

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https://doi.org/10.1515/IJDHD.2010.034
Keywords for this article
chronic pain; depression; parental bonding

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Editorial
  2. Aging with a disability
  3. Review articles
  4. White matter and oligodendrocyte abnormalities in bipolar disorder
  5. Aging people with intellectual disability in Israel
  6. Original articles
  7. Effects of contralateral extremity manipulation on brain function
  8. Effects of motor sequence training on attentional performance in ADHD children
  9. The effects of parental attitudes on health behaviors of adolescents attending 6th to 8th grades in Turkey
  10. Early identification of adolescents with greater psychosocial needs: an evaluation of the Project P.A.T.H.S. in Hong Kong
  11. The impact of modern library services on the rehabilitation of people with disabilities
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  13. Patterns of adaptive performance by individuals with autism spectrum disorders on the Scales of Independent Behavior-Revised (SIB-R)
  14. A longitudinal study of institutional downsizing and activity involvement among adults with intellectual disability
  15. Health trends from an international sample of older adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
  16. The relationship of parental bonding to depression in patients with chronic pain
  17. Semantic structure of alcohol and marijuana categories in memory
  18. Case reports
  19. Ergonomic alternating pressure relief seating system for the rehabilitation of patients with decubitus ulcers
  20. Heart rate variability changes induced by auditory stimulation in persistent vegetative state
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