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Article: Examining the generalizability of the orality-depression link.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- November 1, 1997
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LEWIS (1993, 1996) examined the relationship between orality and depressive symptoms derived from the psychoanalytic theory that fixation at the oral stage of psychosexual development influences symptoms of depression (Abraham, 1927/1965; Fenichel, 1946; Freud, 1917/1957, 1933/1964). Lewis (1993) reported a significant association between the Oral Pessimism Questionnaire (Kline, 1978; Kline & Storey, 1977) and the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, Ward, Mendelsohn, Mock, & Erbaugh, 1961). Furthermore, in examining the specificity of this finding, Lewis (1996) found no association between depressive symptoms and anal personality traits, as measured by the Ai3 (Kline, 1969, ...