Zusammenfassung der Ressource
deprivation
- 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
- 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
- to lose something, such as
the care of an attachment
figure, for a long period of
time
- 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