Effects of Institutionaisation - Research
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- Effects of Institutionalisation - Reseacrh
- Rutter et al
- Aim: Effects on later attachments and social/emotional development
- Procedure
- Longitudinal study
- Assessing at 4, 6, 11 yrs old
- Whether they were adopted before or after 6 months pf age
- 100 Romanian orphans
- Longitudinal study
- Findings:
- Those adopted before six months had normal attachments and development within the home
- Those adopted after 6 months had disinhibited attachments + issues with development caused trouble with peers
- Evaluation Points
- Longitudinal - prevented individual differences between Pps assessing same children over time
- Natural Experiment - needed because otherwise unethical but means lack of control
- Uses opportunity sampling so Pps may not be representative of how care would affect all people
- Conclusion: Long-term affects are less severe as once thought and can be reversed if attachments form before six months
- Hodges + Tizard
- Aim: Affect of privation on later attachments and social/emotional development
- Procedure
- Longitudinal
- Assessed up until the age of 16
- Whether adopted or restored to original family
- Children from orphanages
- Longitudinal
- Findings
- Adopted children formed normal attachments within the home
- Put more effort in as had to be chosen and assessed by agency
- Only 50% of restored children formed normal attachments by 16, those who did a lot slower than adopted kids
- May resent parents for placing them in care
- Likely dis-functional to have placed child in orphanage
- Both groups had trouble with peer relationships out of the home
- Other children less understanding and meaner
- Adopted children formed normal attachments within the home
- Conclusion: Institutions prevent the formation of attachments and can have irreversible effects
- Evaluation points
- Longitudinal - prevented individual differences between Pps assessing same children over time
- Attrition - In this study, over time 9 Pps either dropped out or lost contact with. Makes past results unusable so smaller sample makes results less reliable and representative
- Rutter et al
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