PRIVATION

PRIVATION

PROCEDURE
1. 65 Children who were placed in an institution aged under 4 months were studied.
  1. At age 4: 15 had been restored to their mothers and 24 adopted.
    1. They were compared to a control group of children raised in a normal home environment.
      1. Interviews were conducted with the children, teachers, parents and peers.
  2. They had excellent physical care but no opportunity to form an attachment, so they experienced privation.
FINDINGS
1. There were differences between the ex-institutional children and the control group however they were not affectionless psychopaths like bolwby predicted.
  1. AGE 4: The restored and adopted children were more attention seeking and indiscriminately affectionate than control group
  2. 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.
  3. AGE 8: All children had a close relationship with parents but the ex-institutional children were more ttention seeking from adults.
EVALUATION
1. VALIDITY: It has high validity because the situation is naturally occurring and couldn't be set up deliberately due to ethical reasons.
2. 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.

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