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The Relation Of Early Environmental Experience To Shame And Self-Criticism: Psychological Pathways To Depression, Karin Sandquist, B. F. S. Grenyer, Peter Caputi
The Relation Of Early Environmental Experience To Shame And Self-Criticism: Psychological Pathways To Depression, Karin Sandquist, B. F. S. Grenyer, Peter Caputi
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Self-criticism has been identified as a particularly malignant personality variable that confers vulnerability for the development of depression. Although impressive literature on depressive symptoms and the personality variable self-criticism exists, few studies have examined the origins of a self-critical style and little is currently known as to how the self-conscious affect of shame may impact this link. The aim of this study was to test a more comprehensive path model of depressive symptoms. The proposed model suggested that self-criticism originates from a parental style characterised by low parental warmth and high parental control, with self-criticism and shame representing mediating variables …