Do We Perceive Experiencing More Stress in Early Adulthood if We Had Perceived Experiencing Parental Rejection in Childhood?

Abstract

The article aims to present research on the relationship between perceived maternal and paternal acceptancerejection, psychological adjustment, and perceived stress in early adulthood.The sample consists of 322 subjects between 20 and 40 years of age (M = 29.42, SD = 6.41). The sample is not gender-balanced (248 women (77%) and 74 men (23%), almost all of them Bulgarian (295, 91.6%; 1, 0.3% of Turkish origin and 26, 8.1% missing data), most of them university graduates (235, 73%), employed (239, 74.2%) and married or cohabiting with a partner (246, 76.4%).