Hodges and Tizard - Children raised institutions

• Hodges and Tizard - children raised institutions - method

  • Longitudinal study of 65 children who been placed in a residential nursery before they were 4 months old
  • Hadn't had opportunity to form attachments
  • By age 4 some children returned to mother some been adopted and some stayed in nursery
• Hodges and Tizard - children raised institutions - Findings

  At age 16, adopted group had a strong family relationship but had weaker peer relationships compared to those who returned to their mothers

  Those who stayed in nursery had poorest relationships
• Hodges and Tizard - children raised institutions - Conclusions

  Children can recover from early maternal deprivation if they are in a good quality, loving environment but social development may not be as good as children who never suffered privation
• Hodges and Tizard - children raised institutions - Evaluation

  Natural experiment = high ecological validity

  Small sample and more than 20 children couldn't be found by the end of the study

  Hard to generalise results

  Lot of children underfed and malnourished with a lack of stimulation