Hodges and Tizard (Institutions & Privation)
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- Hodges and Tizard (Institutions & Privation)
- Participants
- 65 British children in institutions from a few months old
- 15 restored to biological families
- 24 adopted
- Children given good quality care, but staff discouraged from forming attachments
- Privation occurred
- Matched to a control group - been with biological families all life
- 65 British children in institutions from a few months old
- Results
- No attachments at age 4
- Adopted
- Age 8: Good attachements
- Better social and intellectual development
- Restored
- Weaker attachements
- More behavioural problems
- ALL more attention seeking and had difficulty forming peer relationships
- Adopted
- No attachments at age 4
- Evaluation
- Not randomly allocated - mroe social/ attractive children for adoption - confounding variable so no cause and effect
- Interviews (self report) so social desirability bias - may want to present child in good light - biased results
- High attrition rate - families with most difficulty dropped out - leaves biased and not representative sample
- Procedures
- Assessments at age 8 and 16
- Interviews with peers
- Interviews with teachers
- Interviews with families
- Assessments at age 8 and 16
- Participants
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