Romanian Orphan Studies
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- Created on: 11-05-18 19:18
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- Romanian Orphan Studies
- Rutter's ERA study
- Procedure
- Assessed physical,cognitive & emotional well-being
- At ages 6,8 & 11
- 165 Romanian adoptees
- Control group: 52 British adoptees
- Assessed physical,cognitive & emotional well-being
- Findings
- adopted >6 months= highest IQ (102)
- Adopted >6 months= signs of disinhibted attachment
- Adopted >2 years= lowest IQ (77)
- Procedure
- Strengths
- Real-life application
- Langton
- results changed how children are cared for in insitutuions
- avoid large no. of caregivers
- They have a key worker
- allow child to form normal attachment
- avoids development of dismemberment attachments
- They have a key worker
- Langton
- Fewer extraneous variables
- high internal validity
- other orphan studies had children who had been traumatised prior
- confounding participant variables
- Made it harder to analyse effects of institutionalisation
- confounding participant variables
- Real-life application
- Weaknesses
- Romanian Orphanages were atypical
- unusual situational variables
- so lacks generaliablity
- results aren't applicable to institutions with higher quality care
- They had extremely poor quality of care
- unusual situational variables
- Ethical issues
- Bucharest earl intervention study
- ethically wrong use extremely vulnerable children
- no clear guardian that would act in the children's best interest
- greater risk of being selected for convenience purposes
- can't gain informed consent
- Bucharest earl intervention study
- Romanian Orphanages were atypical
- Zeanah et al.'s Bucharest Early Intervention project
- Procedure
- 95 children aged 12-36 months
- Spent most their lives in institutional care
- Control group: 50 children who'd never been in institutional care
- 95 children aged 12-36 months
- Findings
- control group
- 74% securely attached
- >20% disinhibited attachment
- Children in institutional care
- 19% securely attached
- 44% disinhibted attachment
- 65% disorganised attahment
- control group
- Procedure
- Effects of institutionalisation
- Disinhibited attachment
- equally friendly to strangers and well known people
- Rutter said to was an adaption to living with many caregivers
- during sensitive period
- Mental retardation
- can be reversed if adopted >6 months
- Disinhibited attachment
- Rutter's ERA study
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