Abstract
A study of the correlates of psychological distress in first-year medical students serendipitously revealed an association between student's reports of having had full-time working mothers in early childhood and relatively high levels of psychological distress in medical school. Those who indicated that their mothers had been unemployed before the respondents' 6th birthdays scored lower than the class mean on the distress scale. Those who remembered having had part-time employed mothers reported relatively low levels of distress. The implications of these findings are considered in the context of attachment theorists' implicit debate with the advocates of maternal employment. The authors call for prospective investigations of the interaction among several critical variables which may have contributed to the study's outcome.
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