S6 - KS (BOWLBY) Evaluation

• Methodology

  • POSITIVE: 56 page report, 25 on seperation
  • Qualiative data
  • Increase ecological validity due to detail
  • NEGATIVE: non-experimental, no cause and effect as opportunity sample, not 100% conclusive (decreasing internal validity)
• Procedure


  • NEGATIVE: Biased
  • Interview with mothers biased as prone to social desirability
  • Researcher bias as subjective due to own clinic
  • Questions reliability
• Sample


  • POSITIVE: large sample (88 - 44 thieves and 44 control)
  • Allows generalisations
  • Increase external validity
  • NEGATIVE: opporunity sample (disturbed teenagers)
  • Cannot generalise all deliquent due to seperation (decreasing population validity)
• Altnerative

  • Rutter and romania
  • Early intervention - less consequences
  • Lack of care before 6 months is recoverable
• Ethics

  • Confidentiality breached

  Report gave first name and first initial of last name, details of lives and makes them easily identified

  
  

  • Valid consent

  1936-1939, report was published in 1946

  Difficult to get consent 6 years later
• Social Implications


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