Cultural Variations in Attachment
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- Cultural Variations in Attachment
- Van Ijzendoorn
- Findings
- secure attachments range from 75% in Britain and 50% in China
- Insecure-resistant ranges from 3% in Britain to 30% in Israel
- insecure-avoidant around 35% in Germany and approx. 5% in Japan
- biggest differences come from within countries rather than between them
- Procedure
- meta-analysis of strange situations across 8 countries, 32 studies overall, nearly 2000 children
- Findings
- An Italian Study
- Procedure
- Simonella et al. assesses 76 one year olds
- Findings
- only 50% had secure attachments, lower than other studies, researchers blame the increasing number of mothers working longer hours
- Procedure
- A Korean Study
- Procedure
- Jin et al. compared proportions of attachment types in Korea to other studies - 87 overall
- Findings
- similar distribution to Japan - similar child-rearing styles
- Procedure
- Conclusions
- secure attachments seem to be the norm in a wide range of cultures
- supports the idea of innate and universal attachment
- cultural practices have an influence on attachment type
- secure attachments seem to be the norm in a wide range of cultures
- Evaluation
- Large Samples
- increase internal validity by reducing the impact of anomalies
- Not representative
- studies claim to study cultural variation, though could actually be studying within countries
- comparisons between countries may have little meaning
- Bias
- Strange Situation designed by an American based on a British theory- how is this generalisable to other cultures?
- Large Samples
- Van Ijzendoorn
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