deprivation

deprivation

1. MDH

   • bowlby's view that long term separation from CG leads to negative effects on intellectual, social and emotional development
   • evaluation
     • support tends to include institutionalised children, not just maternally deprived children
     • not all research shows negative effect of deprivation, including research by Bowlby
     • correlational research
       • cannot infer cause and effect
     • retrospective data
       • unreliable
     • Bowlby did not consider the possibility that this could have been privation rather than deprivation

2. 44Thieves study - Bowlby

   • interviewed 44 thieves and 44 children who were emotionally maladjusted (5-18y/o) and their families in london
     • unreprasentative sample
   • identified some of the thieves as affectionless psychopaths - lack of guilt
   • 86% of affectionless psychopaths had experienced prolonged separation from their parents earlier on. less than 4% of control group had similar experiences
     • suggests link between separation and development of behavioural problems

3. to lose something, such as the care of an attachment figure, for a long period of time

4. other supporting studies

   • Spitz
     • orphanages in south america. little warmth or attention, lead to analytic depression (institutionalisation)
       • this was due to the lack of emotional care from their mothers ( primary CG)
   • Goldfarb
     • poor orphanage. 1 group stayed a few months, the other up to 3 years. tested at 12 years.
       • found that the longer they stayed, the more aggressive, less socially mature and less intelligent they were