Do perceived parental rearing patterns influence social behaviour dimensions and disease severity in schizophrenia?

Abstract

In an explorative study, a clinical sample of 53 schizophrenic patients was examined. The EMBU inventory was used for measuring perceived parental rearing practices, the AfS for rating the quality of relationship to key relatives and the U-Scale for assessing social anxiety. The findings obtained were intercorrelated and compared with 3 selected parameters of disease severity: age at first hospitalization, number of treated episodes and length of hospital stay. The results suggest that the quality of contact with key relatives is determined to a larger extent by the schizophrenia than by parental rearing attitudes. Rearing behaviour more likely influences the age at first hospitalization and social anxiety, whereas considering the length of face-to-face contact, the quality of the relationships between patients and their key relatives can be assumed to be associated with the duration of hospital stays.

Perceived parental rearing behaviour in patients with a schizophrenic disorder and its relationship to aspects of the course of the illness

“…The results of the present investigation crossvalidate the data obtained by Kahlil ( 13), who used the same assessment instrument in a sample of German schizophrenics. As in the case of the German sample, Swedish patients gave their parents a significantly higher score on the factor 'rejection' than did control subjects.…”

“…The findings reported in the present study, which are consistent with those reported by other authors, have some degree of concurrent validity, and so should have some predictive validity as well. One prediction that can be made is that negative rearing experiences might contribute to the development of dysfunctional self-schemata in the offspring as suggested in the extended model of individual vulnerability proposed by Perris (21)(22)(23)(24), and that such experiences might be reflected by a poor level of social functioning, as suggested by Kahil ( 13). In order to verify these assumptions, a further investigation is currently in progress.…”

“…In fact, there was only a non-significant suggestion that the PBI was capable of discriminating between relapsers and non-relapsers, with the former reporting less paternal care and greater paternal protection. Khalil ( 12,13) reported the results obtained for 53 patients with a definite diagnosis of schizophrenia, using the same assessment instrument as that adopted in the present study. Schizophrenic patients of both sexes gave both their parents higher scores for rejection and lower scores for emotional warmth than was the case with the available German normative data.…”

Maternal Bonding Behaviour in Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder, Considering Premorbid Personality Traits

“…The information about premorbid personality traits was obtained from a single informant, their mothers. Information about paternal bonding behaviour was restricted to maternal bonding behaviour because mothers were most frequently selected as key relatives [29].…”