Psychic and social life of children in Chinese orphanages
type: Dataset
description: My research aims to psychic and social life of children in Chinese orphanages. These children are often abandoned because of their disability. They are placed as a result of the failure of their parents following a death, pauperism, imprisonment, or the difficulties they face leading to the abandonment of the child. I wonder how these children in Chineseorphanages will organize themselves socially and psychologically to deal with the double trauma: abandonment and placement. To test the effects of emotional deprivation crossed with the abandonment and institutionalization, an exploratory research, which consists of field observation and interviews with three nurses is carried out in two Chinese orphanages. And then, the data collection was conducted with 16 children from 7 to 12 years with the methodological tools: the interview with children, drawing and testing stories. The analysis of data collected is based on three vectors that underlie the organization of the psychic life of an individual : self-representation, representation of his relationship with others, defense mechanisms implemented. The presentation of results is divided into two parts: comprehensive study of data (comprehensive study of the interviews, comprehensive study of the drawings, comprehensive study of the test stories) and case studies (7 cases among the samples are selected for in-depth studies). The results show that these children have deficiencies in self-representation which are detected by the self-esteem damaged and negative feelings, deficiencies in their relationship with others of the order of pathology of the link, and to deal with their situation, some children may enter into a process of resilience which is observed by the defense mechanisms they use or by reference to a guardian of resilience.
identifier: NNT: 2012PA05H001
issued: 2026-05-22T18:37:51.961144
language: fr
modified: 2026-05-22T18:37:51.961150
contact point: Organization
  fn: CCSD
keyword: abandon
keyword: abandonment
keyword: carence-affective
keyword: chinese-children
keyword: clinical-psychology
keyword: defense-mechanisms
keyword: emotional-deprivation
keyword: enfants-chinois
keyword: infoeu-reposemanticsdoctoralthesis
keyword: mecanismes-de-defense
keyword: orphanage
keyword: orphelinat
keyword: placement
keyword: psychologie-clinique
keyword: relation-aux-autres
keyword: relationship-with-others
keyword: representation-de-soi
keyword: self-representation
keyword: separation
keyword: shssociohumanities-and-social-sciencessociology
keyword: theses
keyword: trauma
keyword: traumatisme
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Psychic and social life of children in Chinese orphanages
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issued: 2026-05-22T18:37:52.074686
modified: 2026-05-22T18:37:51.917634
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