Abstract
Codependency—typified by extreme reliance on relationships, particularly with exploitive individuals, as a means of personal fulfillment—is a personality syndrome believed to develop, in part, from dysfunctional parenting. Based on this characterization, it was reasoned that codependency would be associated with inadequate parental bonding. It was also reasoned that codependent persons would be more attentive and responsive to an exploitive than to a nurturant other, whereas the opposite was expected for noncodependent persons. Support was found for both of these predictions: Questionnaire data revealed an association between codepenclency and high maternal control and/or low maternal care. In a laboratory procedure modeled after Lyon and Greenberg (1991), high and low codependents evidenced predicted, markedly different changes in mood as a function of whether they received positive or negative feedback from either an exploitive or a nurturant source. Evaluations of the source differed similarly. Based o...
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