Rutter et al. (effects of institutional care)
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- Effects of institutional care - Rutter et al. (2007)
- Observation
- Natural experiment
- Independent variable
- Control: 52 UK adopted children
- Level 1: 1/3 6 months old
- Level 2: 1/3 6-24 months old
- Level 3: 1/3 2-4 years old
- Romanian orphans adopted by UK families from institution
- Entered institution as small babies
- Dependent Variable
- Level of functioning
- Findings
- At age 6: 26% of Romanian children showed 'marked' disinhibited attachment behaviours
- Whereas only 3.8% for UK children
- At age 11: disinhibited attachment persisted & many were recieving help for educational needs and/or mental health problems
- At age 6: 26% of Romanian children showed 'marked' disinhibited attachment behaviours
- Conclusions
- Some had impaired functions after failing to form attachment
- Factors that affected this where the number of years spent without attachment and how good the adoptive family were
- Effects of privation are not as global as Bowlby's theory and critical period suggest
- Evaluation
- Wide range of measurement to assess children's behaviour (interviews and observations)
- Sample bias e.g. subject attrition. Therefore unrepresentative of sample
- Reliance on self-report techniques might have biased findings
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