Cultural variations in attachment

Question 1

What type of study did Van Ijzendoorn conduct?

Answer 1

Meta-analysis

Question 2

How many studies were involved?

Answer 2

32

Question 3

How many participants were there?

Answer 3

1,900

Question 4

How many participants had secure attachments?

Answer 4

67%

Question 5

How many participants had insecure-avoidant attachments?

Answer 5

21%

Question 6

How many participants had insecure-resistant attachments?

Answer 6

12%

Question 7

Which country had the highest proportion of insecure-avoidant attachments?

Answer 7

Germany-35%

Question 8

Which countries had the highest proportion of secure attachments?

Answer 8

Britain and Sweden- 75%

Question 9

Which county had the highest proportion of insecure-resistant attachments?

Answer 9

Japan- 32%

Question 10

Evaluate Van Ijzendoorn’s study.

Answer 10

+Strength of combining results.
You can end up with a very large sample and high population validity, so the findings can be generalised.

-The Strange Situations were developed in the US and it may not be an appropriate way of measuring attachment types in other cultures.
The study lacks temporal validity for this reason (it’s dated).

-Meta-analysis drew conclusions about different countries only. they didn’t take into account the different cultures in these countries.

Question 11

How many countries did they collect data from?

Answer 11

8