Attachment: Maternal deprivation AO3

Question 1

METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES WITH BOWLBY’S STUDY
What were the problems in the data that was collected?

Answer 1

The study used an interview to collect retrospective data (i.e. the children and their parents had to think back many years)
- This can produce inaccuracies

Question 2

STRENGTHS
Why does Bowlby’s work have negative consequences for women?

Answer 2

Bowlby’s theories were used by the government to make women stay at home with their children to free up the workplace for the returning men.
- so research is socially sensitive

Question 3

WEAKNESS
How could Bowlby’s work have bias in his findings?

Answer 3

There is researcher bias
- because he conducted all aspects himself
- he diagnosed children as affectionless psychopaths
- there might have been EXPECTANCY EFFECTS

Question 4

STRENGTHS
What are the positive real-life applications of this research?

Answer 4

Bowlby’s theory stressed the importance of emotional bond
- Led to change in policies such as hospital visiting and foster care.