Cultural Variations In Attachment Flashcards
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What is cultural variations?
The differences in norms and values that exist between people in different groups. We are concerned with the differences in proportion of children of different attachment types.
What is the procedure of Culture variations research?
- Researcher located 32 studies of attachment where strange situation had been used to investigate attachment types. These were conducted in eight countries ,15 were in the US and overall from 1990 children.Data of these 32 studies were meta analysed meaning the result of the studies were combined and analysed together.
what are the findings of the studies of culture variations?
In All countries secure attachment was the most common classification, however it varied for example 75% in Britain to 50% in China and individualist cultures rates of insecure resistant was similar to Ainsworth’s original sample all under 14%. but the collectivist samples from China, Japan and Israel where rates were above 25%. interesting finding was the variations between results of studies within the same country were 150% greater than those between countries.
Explain the Italian study of cultural variations?
Simionelli conducted the same study to see attachment types. he assessed 76 babies aged 12 months using strange situation. They found 50% with secure with 36% insecure – avoidant. This is a lower rate of secure attachment and higher rates of insecure, this may be because of the increasing number of mothers work long hours and use professional childcare.
what are the conclusions from cultural variations?
Secure attachment is the norm in a wide range of coaches however research shows that cultural practices have an influence on attachment type
Evaluate one strength of variations in attachment cultural?
They were conducted by ingenuous psychologist meaning they were from the same cultural background as the participants. This means many of the potential problems can be avoided such as researchers misunderstanding the language used by participants or having difficulty communicating instructions to them, difficulties can also include bias because of one nation stereotypes of another. This means the participants were communicated successfully enhancing the validity of data collected.
evaluate one limitation of cross cultural research?
One is a meta analysis studies conducted in different countries do not use the same method when conducting their experiment. sample characteristics such as poverty and social class can confound results and the age of participants. environmental variables might also differ between studies for example the size of the room and the availability of interesting toys there. babies might explore more in studies in small rooms with attractive toys compared to large bear rooms.
