@article{ref1,
title="Suicide attempts and retrospective reports about parent-child relationships: evidence for the affectionless control hypothesis",
journal="Psycho-social medicine",
year="2007",
author="Hardt, J. and Egle, U. T. and Johnson, J. G.",
volume="4",
number="",
pages="Doc12-Doc12",
abstract="Objective: To compare the characteristics of recalled parent-child relationships in suicide attempters vs. non-attemptersMethods: A total of 509 patients - 249 presenting with pain at a psychosomatic clinic and 260 from the offices of general practitioners - were interviewed retrospectively about suicide attempts and parent-child relationships.Results: The overall rate of those reporting a suicide attempt was 17%. Bivariate analyses showed associations of poor parent-child relationships with suicide attempts throughout. In a multivariate analysis, the combinations high maternal control*low perceived love (p<.001) and high control*high role reversal (p=.002) were associated with particularly elevated risks for suicide attempts. Conclusion: Beside the two most extensively explored dimensions of parent-child relationships, parental affection and control, one other dimension, role reversal, also contributes strongly to risk for offspring suicide attempts and should be considered in future studies.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1860-5214",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}