Zusammenfassung der Ressource
PRIVATION
- PROCEDURE
- 65 Children who
were placed in an
institution aged
under 4 months were
studied.
- At age 4: 15 had been restored to their
mothers and 24 adopted.
- They were compared to a control
group of children raised in a normal
home environment.
- Interviews were
conducted with the
children, teachers,
parents and peers.
- They had excellent
physical care but no
opportunity to form an
attachment, so they
experienced privation.
- FINDINGS
- There were differences between the
ex-institutional children and the control group
however they were not affectionless psychopaths
like bolwby predicted.
- AGE 4: The restored
and adopted children
were more attention
seeking and
indiscriminately
affectionate than control
group
- AGE 16: The restored children had a less close
attachment than the adopted and both groups were less
likely to fit into a crowd, be liked by other children and have
a special friend.
- AGE 8: All children had a
close relationship with
parents but the
ex-institutional children
were more ttention
seeking from adults.
- EVALUATION
- VALIDITY: It has high validity
because the situation is
naturally occurring and
couldn't be set up
deliberately due to ethical
reasons.
- ATTRITION: By the end of the study
over 20 of the children could not be
found- this is known as a drop out rate
which makes the sample
unrepresentative making it hard to
generalise the results. (lowers validity)
- AIM: investigate
the effects of
privation on later
social and
emotional
development.