Long Term Effects of Privation

Question 1

Quiton et al. (1984) method, and findings

Answer 1

• Compared 50 women who had experienced institutional care as children with 50 women who hadn’t,
• found that the women who had been raised in institutions were more likely to have parenting difficulties later in life,
• Suggests that there is a cylce of privation; children who have experienced privation later go on to become less caring parents,
• Therefore, their children are deprived of a strong maternal attachment and may then be less caring to their children, and so on.

Question 2

Parker and Forrest (1993), what is Reactive Attachment Disorder?

Answer 2

• Outlined this rare but serious condition,
• Occurs in children who have been permanently damaged by early experiences such as privation of attachment,
• Symptoms include:
  1) An inability to give or receive affection,
  2) Dishonesty,
  3) Poor social relationships,
  4) Involvement in crime.

Question 3

Freud and Dann (1951) method and findings

Answer 3

• Studied six children rescued after WWII,
• They had been orphaned during the war at a few months old, and raised within a deportation camp,
• They were looked after by the Jewish people passing through to the concentration camps,
• The children didn’t have time to form any adult attachments, instead forming bonds amongst themselves,
• When the war ended, the children were adopted by British families and have shown few signs of a troubled uprbringing,
• They had a normal level of intelligence and maintained normal relationships.