Childhood Parentification and Shame-Proneness: A Preliminary Study

Wells, Marolyn; Jones, Rebecca

doi:10.1080/019261800261789

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“…As a result, such disappointment and resentment tends to lead to feelings of shame and guilt and an increasing tendency toward anxiety and self-deprecation. Supportive of this claim, Wells and Jones (2000) found that childhood parentification is associated with shame-proneness in adults. The authors contend that parentified individuals experience shame about the true self as a result of the internalization of unrealistic parental expectations.…”

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Parentification and the Impostor Phenomenon: An Empirical Investigation

Castro

Jones

Mirsalimi

2004

The American Journal of Family Therapy

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This article examines the hypothesis that individuals who were parentified as children are more likely to report impostor feelings in adulthood. A sample of 213 graduate students were given the Parentification Questionnaire (Sessions & Jurkovic, 1986) and Clance's Impostor Phenomenon Scale (Clance, 1985). Results indicated that parentification and the impostor phenomenon are moderately correlated (r = .37). No significant gender differences were found for either construct. With regard to racial/ethnic differences, no significant differences were found in parentification scores; however, Caucasians endorsed significantly higher impostor phenomenon scores than African Americans. The results suggest that the impostor phenomenon can be explained, in part, as a significant long-term effect of childhood parentification.

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Parentification and the Impostor Phenomenon: An Empirical Investigation

Castro

Jones

Mirsalimi

2004

The American Journal of Family Therapy

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“…That is, research suggests that negative parental rearing behaviors play a role in children’s proneness to experience shame. More specific, data from both retrospective studies with adults and cross-sectional and longitudinal studies with children and adolescents have shown that shame is positively connected with an authoritarian parenting style (Mills 2003), denigration, indifference, rejection, and abandonment of parents (Claesson and Sohlberg 2002; Gilbert et al 2003; Han and Kim 2012; Harvey et al 1997), parental use of conditional positive regard (Assor and Tal 2012), parentification (Wells and Jones 2000), negative parental evaluative behavior (Alessandri and Lewis 1993), and disparagement and shaming (Gilbert et al 1996; Mills et al 2010). …”

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On the Link between Perceived Parental Rearing Behaviors and Self-conscious Emotions in Adolescents

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This study examined relationships between the self-conscious emotions of guilt and shame in both clinical (N = 104) and non-clinical (N = 477) (young) adolescents aged 11–18 years, who completed a questionnaire to assess perceived parental rearing behaviors (EMBU-C) and a scenario-based instrument to measure proneness to guilt and shame (SCEMAS). Results indicated that parental rearing dimensions were positively related to self-conscious emotions. Regarding the non-clinical sample, both favourable (emotional warmth) and unfavourable (rejection) paternal and maternal rearing dimensions were significant correlates of guilt- and shame-proneness. The results for the clinical sample were less conclusive: only maternal emotional warmth and rejection were found to be significantly associated with guilt and shame. Interestingly, no associations between any of the paternal rearing dimensions and self-conscious emotions emerged. Taken together, these results are in keeping with the notion that parental rearing factors are involved in the development of both adaptive and maladaptive self-conscious emotions in adolescents.

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“…More specifically, studies have shown that emotional role reversal increases risk for masochism and narcissism (Jones & Wells, 1996), imposter feelings (Castro, Jones, & Mirsalimi, 2004), shame, guilt (e.g., Wells & Jones, 2000), anxiety and depression (Jacobvitz & Bush, 1996). Past role reversal may negatively predict emotional well-being because these experiences may lead to generalized concerns about being valued (Chase, 1999).…”

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