Attachment Flashcards
Spitz and wolf
1940, observed 100 children who were placed in institutional care and found that after a few months they became severely depressed.
Skeeles and dye
1939, children who are placed in institutional care score lower on iq tests.
NICHD
Longitudinal study in 1991 conducted to see the effect of day care on aggression. 1000 children from 10 different locations and various backgrounds, they were assessed at regular intervals and it was found that at the age of 5, those who spent the longest in day care were more likely to be aggressive, assertive and disobedient. They also found that those who spent long hours in day care were more nearly 3x more likely to show behavioural problems.
Belsky et al
2007, looked at the children from the NICHD study and found that during their primary school education they still showed aggression.
Bryant et al
1980, those who are looked after by childminders are more likely to suffer from negative effects and are likely to be disturbed because their carers don’t believe that they need to form bonds to them.
Gregg et al
2005, the only group that suffered negative effects of day care were those whose care consistently consisted of people who were unpaid as they felt less responsibility.
Belsky and Rovine
1988, studied children in the strange situation who spent 20+ hours in day care and found they were more likely to be insecurely attached.
Egeland and hiester
1995, found that insecure children fare better in day care than secure children, secure children become aggressive as they don’t need the compensatory care like the insecure children do and so they become annoyed.
1986, reviewed 200 strange situations and found another attachment type (disorganised attachment type). These children go through periods of clinging to the mother and rejecting her and they came about from lack of consistent behaviour and no strategy of dealing with stress.
Main and Solomon
