Attachment: Cultural variations AO3

Question 1

What is 1 strength and 1 limitation of cultural variations study?

Answer 1

1 strength:
- Large samples
1 limitation:
- samples are unrepresentative of culture

Question 2

How many babies and how is having large samples a strength of a research?

Answer 2

There are 2000 babies in van ijzendoorn’s meta-analysis and large comparison groups
- increased internal validity

Question 3

Why is the cultural variations study unrepresentative of cultures?

Answer 3

Original meta-analysis was only made between countries not cultures
- Other factors such as poverty and stress may affect caregiving and patterns of attachment