Bowlby - 44 thieves 1946
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- Created on: 26-03-15 17:18
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- Bowlby - 44 thieves - 1946
- Aim
- Gain evidence to support maternal deprivation hypothesis
- See if there's an association between delinquency and maternal deprivation
- Hypothesis
- Thieves will have had a more prolonged separation from mother in sensitive period
- Design
- Retrospective
- Matched control group to sample
- Sample
- 44 juvenile thieves
- attending Tavistock guidance clinic
- referred in different ways
- 22 by school
- 2 by school at parents' request
- 3 by court orders
- 9 by probation officer
- referred in different ways
- 50% chronic or serious offenders
- 16% stealing for more than 3 years
- 20% stole a few times
- 10% stole once
- 34% under 9
- 50% under 11
- attending Tavistock guidance clinic
- Control group
- 44 emotionally disturbed children
- Matched on age and intelligence
- 75% male - 25% female
- usual clinic intake was 60% male, 40% female
- intelligence 3rd above average
- 44 juvenile thieves
- Procedure
- unstructured interviews
- about childhood experiences
- IQ tests
- Psychiatric assessments
- Bowlby interviewed child and mother
- about separation and its effects
- case conferences
- follow up interviews
- psychotherapy offered
- affectionless psychopathy checklist
- inability to have emotionally intense relationships
- lack of affectionate behaviour
- lack of guilt and remorse when causing distress to others
- unstructured interviews
- Findings
- Thieves
- 17% suffered maternal deprivation
- 32% affectionless psychopaths
- 20% depressed
- less than 5% classed as normal
- Control group
- 4% suffered maternal deprivation
- 0% affectionless psychopaths
- 30% depressed
- 20% overly conscientious
- 86% of affectionless psychopaths suffered maternal deprivation
- Thieves
- Conclusion
- maternal deprivation affects long term emotional development
- effects of maternal deprivation will be present several years later
- effects of maternal deprivation arent reversable
- only 17% had mat. dep. - cannot conclude link
- Evaluation
- not generalisable
- not representative of normal clinic intake
- constructive memory
- affects validity
- social desirability bias
- may not be valid
- researcher bias
- triangulation
- highlighted importance of attachment
- cannot find cause and effect
- not generalisable
- Aim
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