Cultural Variations In Attachment

Question 1

What is ‘Cultural Variations’?

Answer 1

• The difference in norms and values that exist between people in different groups.

Question 2

What is Meta-analysis?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Who studied Cultural Variations?

Answer 3

• Van ljzendoorn

Question 4

What was his proceedure?

Answer 4

• Conducted a meta analysis which consisted of 32 studies from 8 countries which tested mother-infant attachment types using the strange situation.
• There were 1990 results from infants.
• All studies compromised of at least 35 mother-infants pairs and used infants aged two years or younger.

Question 5

What were his aims?

Answer 5

• To asses similarities and differences in the amount of Type A, B and C classification across countries.
• To asses the extent of between and within cultural differences in attachment types of different countries.

Question 6

What were his findings?

Answer 6

• There was wide variations
• Secure attachment was most common in classification in all countries.
• However, proportions varied from 75% in Britain to 50% in China.
• In individualistic cultures rates of insecure-resistant attachment were the least common.