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Bowlby's maternal deprivation hypothesis. To find out if children were deprived of their mother during the critical period of attachment of the first few years of their lives, could a serious range of permanent consequences happen for later development?
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Study of 44 juvenile thieves - Bowlby (1944) Aim: Bowlby's maternal deprivation hypothesis. To find out if children were deprived of their mother during the critical period of attachment of the first few years of their lives, could a serious range of permanent consequences happen for later development? Procedure: Conducted research with 88 clients from the child guidance clinic. Forty-four children had been referred to the clinic because of stealing. Bowlby interviewed children and their parents building up a record of their early life experiences. Findings: He found that a large number, 86% of those thieves diagnosed as 'affectionless psychopaths' had experienced early and prolonged separations from their mothers, whereas very few of the non-psychopathic thieves or the other children had experienced such separations. Conclusion: Early separations may well be related to later emotional maladjustment. Bowbly identified some of these children as ' affectionless psychopaths' because they appeared to have little sense...
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