Constitutional Factors in Institution Children

Bodman, Frank

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“…Together, these influence an individual's interpretation of interpersonal relationships in an ambiguous scene. Taking into account that institutionalized children have a history of unsuccessful interpersonal interactions (Bowlby, 1965) and feelings of insecurity (Bodman, 1950), it was justly expected that in explaining the behavior of others, the subjects would reveal motivation characterized by a fear of rejection. Connors (1963) takes n Aff further, claiming, like DeCharms (1957), that total n Aff is positively correlated with negative n Aff but not with positive n Aff, and that total n Aff results from affiliation deprivation.…”

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“…The child who has failed to learn the appropriate responses for social interactions, will, according to Bodman (1950), remain socially immature and consequently, because he does not have the necessary social skills, "the degree to which [he] has confidence in his ability, real or fancied, to be successful [Fouche & Grobbelaar, 1970, p. 7]" (i.e., his self-esteem) will surely decline. Thus institu-tionalization, in that it deprives the child of the situation in which social skills can be reinforced (Zigler, Butterfield, & Capobianco, 1970), results in a lowering of self-esteem.…”

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The need to affiliate and self-esteem in institutionalized children.

Youngleson

1973

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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The present experiment was designed to test the hypothesis that institutionalized children have a greater need to affiliate, compared to noninstitutionalized control children, and that this need is negative in nature. It was also predicted that institutionalized children manifest less self-esteem than control subjects and that self-esteem is related to affiliation. An adaptation of French's Test of Insight and the Personal, Home, Social and Formal Relations Questionnaire were administered to 12 male and 12 female institutionalized children and a matched control sample. The data confirmed the hypotheses. The results were discussed, and the conclusion was drawn that social deprivation, which is characteristic of institution-reared children leads through a fear of rejection to an increase in affiliation motivation and, because of a poor socializing environment, to reduced self-esteem. 1 This study is based on a dissertation submitted to the University of the Witwatersrand in partial fulfillment of the honors bachelor's degree. The author expresses appreciation to Gerald Doyle for his helpful comments in the preparation of this research and to Valerie Sachs and Sharon Sidley who acted as scorers.2 Requests for reprints should be sent to the author,

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The need to affiliate and self-esteem in institutionalized children.

Youngleson

1973

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…In short, that the environment of the orphanage and the poor law home lacked essential factors required for normal maturity. Indeed, I was able to show, with the co-operation of my colleagues, Miss Sykes, psychiatric social worker, and Miss MacKinlay, educational psychologist, that the orphanage children were at some disadvantage (10), but what emerged from this survey was that these children were as much handicapped by inherited constitutional factors as by their upbringing (11 ).…”

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