Research into Deprivation, its Effects (Short term and Long term) and Reducing the Negative Effects of Deprivation Flashcards
What is deprivation?
It occurs when the attachment bond is formed but is broken later on. It occurs every single time the child is separated from their mother.
What is short term deprivation?
Where the child might be put in day care or when the mother is hospitalised and the child is separated for a period of time
What is long term deprivation?
When the child and parents are separated from one another for a long period of time, a divorce or death
What are the short term effects of deprivation?
Protest - cry, seek mother
Despair - protest stops, becomes hopeless, rejects comfort
Detachment - Regains interest in their environment, doesn’t display normal reunion
What are the long term effects of deprivation?
- Poor intellectual development
- Poor social development
- Problems with relationship formation
- Lack of empathy and guilt
- Delinquency
- Depression
Goldfarb (1955) studied children who stayed in an institution up to the age of 3 before being fostered compared to those fostered at 6 months, what did he find?
Those fostered later encountered issues in adolescence, they were emotionally insecure and intellectually behind
Who used 152 children to study the effects of parental conflict and family reordering and what did they find?
Crocket and Tripp (1994) and they found that those who had a reordered family were worse off than those who didn’t
Spitz (1946) studied children in hospitals and other institutions and found children became depressed after 3 months after being deprived, what happened after?
If they remained in hospital they had a lack of emotion, weight loss and insomnia
Who studies the effects if parents separating and found a higher rate of behavioural problems and lower academic achievements and lower socioeconomic status later in life?
Richards (1995)
How does Kirkby and Whelan (1996) refute the PDD?
They looked at the effects of hospitalisation on children and found that different variables impact the effects:
age
quality of attachment
severity of condition
What was Bowlby’s 44 theives?
Interviewed 44 teenage delinquents who had been referred to a clinic. 32% were AP, 86% of these had experienced 2 year separation
What did Rutter (1981) find?
Children who experienced death of a parent fared better than children separated by conflict or divorce, concluded that the reason for separation was important
What did Harlow find?
That monekys who did not have access to the cloth covered wire were not as well adjusted emotionally as those who could get comfort from the cloth monkey.
