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| An empirical study of object relations in adult children of depressed elderly mothers | | Author(s) | Nancy A Hernandez, Gregory A Hinrichsen, Leah Blumberg Lapidus |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 46, no 2, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 143-156 |
| Keywords | Family relationships ; Family care ; Depression ; Mother ; Children [offspring] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This United States (US) study used a psychodynamic perspective on psychological functioning, object relations, for understanding coping and emotional distress in sons and daughters providing assistance to an older mother hospitalised for major depression. Hypotheses that better maternal object relations would be related to more adaptive coping and less emotional distress received partial support. The hypothesis that an elderly mother's history of depression when a son or daughter was a child would be associated with adult children's poorer object relations received support. Results indicate that object relations may be a useful framework for studying family issues in late life depression. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980515404 A |
| Classmark | DS:SJ: P6:SJ: ENR: SRM: SS: 7T |
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