Cultural Variations - Van Ijzendoorn
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- Created on: 28-06-17 12:45
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- Cultural Variations
- Van Ijzendoorn + Kroonenberg carried out meta-analysis of 32 studies using strange situation in 8 countries with nearly 2000 children
- Secure attachment was main type in every country
- Collectivist cultures (e.g. Israeli kibbutz) had higher levels of insecure resistant
- 30% compared to 3% in UK
- Germany (individualistic) had higher levels of insecure avoidant - 32%
- 1.5x as many intra-cultural as inter-cultural differences
- As secure was most common, they must be innate
- Variations may be due to upbringing
- Meta-analysis=more results=more reliablity
- Small samples sizes used in Japan + China = reduced reliability
- Jin et al found attachment types in Korea were similar to those in Japan - suggests that similar child-rearing practices=similar outcomes
- ** technique is culturally biased
- Japanese children are rarely left with strangers
- Not all cultures see secure as most desirable (e.g. Germany)
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