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A Study of Depression and Relationships


A primary concern for Psychology research is depression. Depression
affects a great deal of our population and many aspects of an individual's
mental health and well-being. In my research of books, articles, and Internet
pages on depression, I chose to base my paper mainly on a 1994 article of a
study of depression, entitled Depression, Working Models of Others, and
Relationship Functioning, by Katherine B. Carnelley, Paula R. Pietromonaco, and
Kenneth Jaffe.
This study focuses on the idea that the type of care received in
childhood, positive or negative, has a great effect on relationship functioning
later in adulthood. But there are two links between child-rearing and
relationship functioning: attachment style and depression. Both derive from
the type of care received in childhood and affect relationship functioning, and
both exert a reciprocal influence on each other in adulthood. The researchers
of this study wanted to......

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