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maternal deprivation
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maternal deprivation
44 theives
- he interviewed 88 children. 1/2 thieves and 1/2 non criminal but emotionally disturbed
- he interviewed their families in order to see if the thieves had prolnged early seperations when they were younger
- bowlby concluded they were affectionless psychopaths
- he found that 14/44 theives could be classeed as affectionless psychopaths. 12/14 had prolonged seperations for the first 2 years of their lives.
- only 5 of the remaining 30 theives had seperations. out of the control only 2/44 experianced seperations.
- he found that 14/44 theives could be classeed as affectionless psychopaths. 12/14 had prolonged seperations for the first 2 years of their lives.
bowlbys theory of maternal deptivation
- seperation- when you are physically parred from an attachment figure
- deprivation- when a child has formed an attachment, but then lost it due to some sort of seperation
- privation- when a child has never had the oppertunity to form an attachment