TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - African Americans/psychology
KW - Alcoholism/epidemiology/psychology
KW - Female
KW - Health Status
KW - Humans
KW - Mental Disorders/diagnosis/epidemiology
KW - Object Attachment
KW - Parent-Child Relations
KW - Parenting/psychology
KW - Primary Health Care
KW - Social Perception
KW - Stress, Psychological/epidemiology/psychology
KW - Women's Health
KW - Women/psychology
AU - J. H. Porcerelli
AU - S. K. Huprich
AU - J. Binienda
AU - D. Karana
A1 - 
AB - Object relations theories hypothesize a relationship between self/other representations and level of psychopathology. Research has lent support to this hypothesis. This study was conducted to examine the link between object representation and psychopathology, stress, physical health status, and alcohol abuse in 110 African-American women in primary care. Object representations were assessed through spontaneous descriptions of parents. Psychopathology and physical health status were assessed with the Patient Health Questionnaire and the Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form Health Survey, both of which were designed for medical settings. The results support the link between dimensions of object representations (developmental level, benevolence, punitiveness) and psychopathology and between object representations and aspects of health status. Punitive maternal and paternal representations were most robustly associated with psychopathology and health status and were the only representational variables associated with alcohol abuse. The findings provide additional support for the object representations-psychopathology link and extend the research by demonstrating associations among object representations, alcohol abuse, and health status.
BT - The Journal of nervous and mental disease
C5 - Healthcare Disparities
CP - 11
CY - United States
DO - 10.1097/01.nmd.0000244552.14073.d3
IS - 11
JF - The Journal of nervous and mental disease
N2 - Object relations theories hypothesize a relationship between self/other representations and level of psychopathology. Research has lent support to this hypothesis. This study was conducted to examine the link between object representation and psychopathology, stress, physical health status, and alcohol abuse in 110 African-American women in primary care. Object representations were assessed through spontaneous descriptions of parents. Psychopathology and physical health status were assessed with the Patient Health Questionnaire and the Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form Health Survey, both of which were designed for medical settings. The results support the link between dimensions of object representations (developmental level, benevolence, punitiveness) and psychopathology and between object representations and aspects of health status. Punitive maternal and paternal representations were most robustly associated with psychopathology and health status and were the only representational variables associated with alcohol abuse. The findings provide additional support for the object representations-psychopathology link and extend the research by demonstrating associations among object representations, alcohol abuse, and health status.
PP - United States
PY - 2006
SN - 0022-3018; 0022-3018
SP - 838
EP - 844
EP - 
T1 - Object representations and their relationship to psychopathology and physical health status in African-American women in primary care
T2 - The Journal of nervous and mental disease
TI - Object representations and their relationship to psychopathology and physical health status in African-American women in primary care
U1 - Healthcare Disparities
U2 - 17102708
U3 - 10.1097/01.nmd.0000244552.14073.d3
VL - 194
VO - 0022-3018; 0022-3018
Y1 - 2006
ER -