Effects of Institutionalisation

Question 1

What is a strength?

Answer 1

Practical applications

Question 2

What are the practical applications?

Answer 2

The principles, that institutionalisation has led to psychological problems, has led to improvements in the conditions experience by children growing up outside their family home e.g children’s homes now avoid having a large number of caregivers

Question 3

What do children have instead of multiple caregivers?

Answer 3

One or two key workers who play a central role in the childs emotional care to reduce negative effects

Question 4

What does Rutter’s research have high control over?

Answer 4

Extraneous variables

Question 5

Why does it have high control over extraneous variables?

Answer 5

In previous studies, orphans has often experienced trauma, neglect, abuse or bereavement and it was difficult to tell if any long term effects had been due to that or being institutionalised. In Rutter’s many had been handed over by loving parents meaning it was possible to study them without these confounding variables

Question 6

What different confounding variables may have been introduced?

Answer 6

The quality of care in these institutions was extremely poor, with children receiving very little intellectual stimulation or comfort meaning the harmful effects may be due to the poor care