Cultural variation in attachment Flashcards

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By who is cultural variation in attachment investigated by?

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Van ijzendoorn

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What is a meta analysis ?

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Where researchers combine the findings from multiple studies to draw an overall conclusion

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What did van ijzendoorn do ?

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He carried out a meta analysis of research findings from the strange situation carried out in different countries

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State the explanation for cultural variation in attachment ?

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If attachments are innate then attachment types should be similar across all cultures
If attachments are learnt through different child-rearing styles then there should be differences across all cultures

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State the purpose of the analysis ?

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To compare the result of 32 studies using the strange situation from 8 different countries

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Findings
What kind of attachments were found to be most common innall countries ?

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Secure attachments

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Findings
Which country had the highest percentage of type A - insecure-avoidant children ?

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Germany had the highest 35% of type A children

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Findings
Which country had the highest percentage of type C insecure-resistant children ?

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Japan had the highest 27% of type C children

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Findings
What was the conclusion iverall ?

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Overall the variation within cultures was greater than the variation between cultures

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Which countries were involved in the analysis?

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8 countries
Britain, china , germany, holland , israel, japan , sweeden , usa

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What were the overall percentages of attachment types?

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Type a = 21%
Type B = 67%
Type C = 12%

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What did they find in one american sample ?

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There was 94% type A attachments , whilst in other USA samples there was 47% type A attachments

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Which type was mostly found in western countriew ?

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Type A

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Which attachment type was found more in israel , china and japan ?

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Type C

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All countries were not represented- why is that an issue ?

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Because universal conclusions cannot be drawn without these countries

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What role could socio-economic differences play on the findings ?

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Some intra-cultural differences may be due to socio-economic differencew for instance some USA samples used pairings from poorer socio-economic backgrounds

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What is meant by imposed etic ?

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Using techniques that are only relevant to 1 culture to stude and/or draw conclusions about another

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Why is imposed etic an issue ?

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Researchers analyse findings in a biased manner in terms of their own cultural beleifs which wrongly imposes culture specific beliefs onto other cultures