... We generated several sets of a priori hypotheses derived from research on overdependence, detachment, and healthy dependency (e.g., Baltes, 1996;Birtchnell, 1987;Bornstein, 1993Bornstein, , 2005Bornstein, , 2012aBornstein, , 2012bCogswell, 2008;Cross et al., 2000;Fiori, Consedine, & Magai, 2008;Kantor, 1993;Rude & Burnham, 1995). We expected that somatic complains (Bornstein, 1998), anxiety (Stewart, Knize, & Pihl, 1992), depression (Bornstein, 2012a(Bornstein, , 2012bRude & Burnham, 1995), psychotic or unusual thought processes (Lysaker, Wickett, Lancaster, Campbell, & Davis, 2004), interpersonal warmth and dominance (Pincus & Wilson, 2001), interpersonal sensitivity (Pincus & Wilson, 2001), suicidality (Birtchnell, 1981;Bornstein & O'Neill, 2000;Epstein, Thomas, Shaffer, & Perlin, 1973), borderline personality pathology (Baity, Blais, Hilsenroth, Fowler, & Padawar 2009;Birtchnell, 1981;Cawood & Huprich, 2011;Coen, 1992), and attachment style (Bornstein, Geiselman, Eisenhart, & Languirand, 2002;Haggerty et al., 2010) would be related to unhealthy dependency. We broadly expected that healthy dependency would be negatively correlated to psychopathology. ...