Further Data on Childhood Parent‐loss in Psychiatric Normals

Munroand, A.; Griffiths, A.

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1968.tb07644.x

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“…Few studies have attempted to assess a child's experiences after bereavement; we would expect them to have a profound moderating influence on the later outcome of parent death. Surprisingly, Munro & Griffiths (1968) found even the immediate response to parent loss was less severe than they had expected; only 25 % of a sample of subjects who had lost a parent during childhood recalled being emotionally disturbed at the time. In this light, the difficulty of demonstrating long-term adverse sequelae, such as adult psychiatric morbidity, does not seem so surprising.…”

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Parental death in childhood and risk of adult depressive disorders: a review

1980

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SYNOPSISThe authors review the evidence that parental death in childhood predisposes to depressive disorders in later life. The findings in general are quite inconsistent; this is due in part to the methodological limitations of most studies, principally that of inadequate control of potentially confounding variables. Where experimental and control samples were most rigorously matched, no association was found between childhood parental bereavement and depression in later life. Parental death in childhood appears to have little effect on adult depressive morbidity.

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