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Outline and evaluate research into privation

Privation is the lack of any attachment, it has more severe consequences than deprivation.
Hodges and Tizard have done research into privation.They followed the development of 65 children who had lived in residential nurseries since they were a few months old, it was a longitudinal study as they were followed up to the age of 16. The children were compared with a control group who had always lived with their family, they were closely matched to the experimental group. The care given to the children was of good quality but the carers were discourage from forming attachments which is why these were cases of privation. By the age of 4, 23 children had been adopted, 11 had been restored (returned to their original home) and the rest remained in institutions. The children were interviewed at ages 4, 8 and 16. In addition to this, their mothers were interviewed, the children were given self-report questionnaires about 'social difficulties', the children underwent a psychometric test and their teachers were given questionnaires about the children's relationships with peers and teachers. Hodges and Tizard found that by age 8 the adopted children had formed good attachments and had better social and intellectual development than those who were restored. They also found that the children who were restored had weaker attachments and more behavioural problems. They found that all of the children were more attention seeking, there were some difficulties in social relationships, had problems with siblings and had poorer relationships with peers. They therefore concluded that children who had been deprived of attachments in earlier life can make good attachments in later life, although it depends on ...

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...age of 6 months and 2 years and those who were adopted after the age of 2 years. He found that by the age of 6 the children were making good recoveries, but those who were adopted after the age 2 had higher levels of weaker attachments with those around them. He then observed them again when they were at the age of 11 and found that some had made recoveries but those who had problems with attachments at the age of 6 still suffered from it.

A good thing about this research is the sample size, as there are 111 children involved in the study the results are more likely to be generalisable as its probable that the group is fairly diverse.
However a problem with this research is that the babies who were adopted before the age of 6 months may not of experienced privation as they would still be fairly young and would be able to form a significant attachment with someone.

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