The Social World in Long-Term Care Institutions: Psychosocial Control Toward Dependency?

The term dependency has passed into disuse over the last decade after being in the limelight of developmental psychological research during the 1950s and 1960s (e.g., Beller, 1955; Gewirtz, 1954, 1956, 1961; Hartup, 1963; Heathers, 1955; Kagan & Moss, 1962; Sears, Maccoby, & Levin, 1957; Sears, Whiting, Nowlis, & Sears, 1953). In hindsight three developments may be regarded as liable for the term's demise.