Bowlby's theory on Maternal Deprivation
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- MATERNAL DEPRIVATION
- SEPARATION VS DEPRIVATION
- Separation - the child not being in the presence of the PCG
- Becomes a issue if the child is deprived
- I.E lose an element of her care
- Extended separation can lead to deprivation (which causes harm)
- Becomes a issue if the child is deprived
- Separation - the child not being in the presence of the PCG
- BOWLBY'S THEORY 1951
- Continual presence of nurture from a mother is essential for babies and toddlers
- Emotionally and intellectually
- 'mother-love in infancy and childhood is as important for mental health as are vitamins and protein for physical health'
- Continual presence of nurture from a mother is essential for babies and toddlers
- EFFECTS ON DEVELOPMENT
- Intellectual development
- Suffer mental retardation
- Abnormally low IQ
- Suffer mental retardation
- Emotional development
- Affectionless psychopathy
- inability to experience guilt or strong emotions for others
- Prevents the person developing normal relationships and associated with criminality
- Affectionless psychopathy
- Intellectual development
- BOWLBY'S 44 THEIVES STUDY
- AIM
- Examined the link between affectionless psychopathy and maternal deprivation
- METHOD
- 44 criminal teenagers - accused of stealing
- Interviewed for signs of affectionless psychopathy
- Characterised as lack of affection, lack of guilt about their actions and lack of empathy of their victims
- Families interviewed to see if 'theives' had prolonged seperation
- Controlled group - non-criminal but emotionally disturbed young people was set up
- How often maternal deprivation occurred in non thieves
- FINDINGS
- 14 of 44 - affectionless psychopath
- 12 of 14 had experienced prolonged separation of first 2 years
- 5 of the remaining 30 had experienced seperation
- Controlled group - 2 of 44 had experienced long seperation
- 14 of 44 - affectionless psychopath
- CONCLUSION
- Prolonged early separation caused affectionless psychopthy
- AIM
- A03
- Evidence may be poor
- Goldfarb
- Orphaned during second war
- Traumatised and poor after care
- These factors may have caused it not seperation
- Traumatised and poor after care
- Orphaned during second war
- 44 thieves
- Bias
- Bowlby interviewed them all
- Bias
- Goldfarb
- Counter-evidence
- Hilda Lewis 1954
- Replicated 44 study - larger scale of 500
- Prolonged separation did not predict criminality
- Replicated 44 study - larger scale of 500
- Hilda Lewis 1954
- Critical period is more of a sensitive period
- Jarmila Koluchova 1976
- Twin boys from Czechoslovakia
- Isolated from 18 moths until 7 years old (step mum kept them locked in a cupboard)
- Looked after 2 adults and recoverd fully
- Period may be sensitive but not 'critical'
- Looked after 2 adults and recoverd fully
- Isolated from 18 moths until 7 years old (step mum kept them locked in a cupboard)
- Twin boys from Czechoslovakia
- Jarmila Koluchova 1976
- Animal studies show effects of maternal deprivation
- Levy et al. 2003
- Separation baby rats from mother for as little as a day had a permanent effect on their social development
- Levy et al. 2003
- Evidence may be poor
- SEPARATION VS DEPRIVATION
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