Attachment representations in children following early institutional deprivation
At age 11, 90 children adopted from Romanian institutions and 30 UK adoptees without that deprivation completed the Child Attachment Interview. Researchers compared attachment representations with deprivation and earlier attachment disturbances. Associations with coherence, reflective functioning and atypical behaviours became non-significant after controlling for IQ.
Limitations: This is an observational analysis of extreme institutional deprivation, not adoption generally. Statistical adjustment does not establish causal mediation. Participants belong to the ERA cohort and overlap with its journal publications.
- Research type
- Doctoral thesis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Children
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: English and Romanian Adoptees Study
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adoptee voice, attachment, cognition, institutional deprivation, longitudinal research
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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