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Project

The role of attachment and parenting in the intergenerational transmission of depression
Code
01J06108
Duration
01 January 2008 → 31 October 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Clinical and counselling psychology
    • Developmental psychology and ageing
    • Other psychology and cognitive sciences
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Psychiatry and psychotherapy
    • Psychiatry and psychotherapy
    • Nursing
    • Other paramedical sciences
    • Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Keywords
parents depression attachment child parenting
 
Project description
 

The first aim of this research is to examine whether insecure attachment can at least partially explain why children of depressed parents are more vulnerably to depression. A second aim is to address the role of parenting in the transmission of depressive symptoms and insecure attachment. Third, we want to examine emotion regulation as an intervening variable in relations between attachment and children's depressive symptoms.