PARENTAL PERCEPTION AND PSYCHOSIS PRONENESS IN COLLEGE-STUDENTS

This study examined the childhood perceptions of their parents of college students scoring deviantly on scales of psychosis proneness measuring physical anhedonia and perceptual aberrations. The family measures administered included the Kvebaek Family Sculpture Technique and the Childhood Experience Scale. As compared with control subjects (n = 29), the anhedonic subjects (n = 21) reported less support and greater disinterest from their mothers during childhood, while the perceptual aberration subjects (n = 29) reported more criticism, less support, and greater distance from their mothers as well as more criticism from their fathers. Interactions with dependence-independence of the childhood behaviors and sex differences are described, along with implications and future directions for research. © 1991 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.