Concept information
Preferred term
maternal deprivation
Definition
- The work of psychologist John Bowlby on the role of early relationships in the development of the personality was extremely influential in the 1950s and 1960s. He argued that for a young child to be separated from its mother, for any extended period, created emotional and psychological problems in later life. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Maternal Deprivation]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/maternal_deprivation
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