Attachment Bowblys Maternal Deprivation Flashcards
Maternal deprivation
Child’s montropic attachment is disrupted during the critical period due to prolonged separation from mother having negative and irreversible consequences
Consequences of deprivation
Social development
Emotional development
Intellectual development
Continuity hypothesis
Social development
delinquents behaviour is often outside of norms such as petty crime
Maladjustment -hard to get on with
Emotional development
Affectionless psychopathy children unable to show caring behaviour to other or empathy towards others feelings and have less guilt - commit crime
Intellectual development
Low IQ
Continuity hypothesis
Deprivation affect the infants internal working model leading to unsuccessfully relationship
Bowblys 44 thieves method
Compared to control group assessing affectionless psychopathy and maternal deprivation 44 thieves 44 non criminals
Interviewed children and families in early life
Bowlby 44 thieves aim
Early separation from primary caregiver was associated with behaviour disorder — affectionless psychopathy
Bowlby thieves results
14/44 thieves was affectionless psychopaths
12/44 had experienced early prolonged deprivation
30 didn’t have affection less psychopathy 5 of those were deprived
What is deprivation
Was an Attachment but it was broken
+real life applications
Robertson
Hospitals allow emotional care in absence of parents parents can stay or named career
- correlational study
No cause and effect between deprivation and delinquency could be a third factor such as extreme poverty or criminal relatives
- type of data
Retrospective data over or underestimated detail of early separation with children - less valid data
