CULTURAL VARIATIONS IN ATTACHMENT 0.0 / 5 ? PsychologyAttachmentA2/A-levelAQA Created by: AnnabellPCreated on: 13-10-17 14:29 WHAT IS A META-ANALYSIIS? IJZENDOORN & KROONENBERG CONDUCTED A META-ANALYSIS COMPARING ATTACHMENT TYPES ALL OVER THE WORLD FROM THE STRANGE SITUATION A META-ANALYSIS IS A MEANS TO COMPARE RESULTS FROM MANY DIFFERENT EXPERIMENTS IN ONE THEY COMPARED LEVELS OF ATTACHMENT TYPES IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES 1 of 4 GLOBAL LEVELS OF ATTACHMENT UK: A) 22% B) 75% C) 3% USA: A) 21% B) 65% C) 14% JAPAN: A) 5% B) 68% C) 27% CHINA: A) 25% B) 50% C) 25% WEST GERMANY: A) 35% B) 57% C) 8% ISRAEL: A) 64% B) 7% C) 29% 2 of 4 FINDINGS GLOBALLY, TYPE B WAS THE MOST COMMON ATTACHMENT CRIME GLOBALLY, THE LEAST COMMON ATTACHMENT TYPE IS TYPE C TYPE A WAS MOST COMMON IN GERMANY AS THEY VALUE INDEPENDENCE. MORE MOTHERS WOULD HAVE LEFT THEIR BABIES ALONE FOR SOME PERIOD OF TIME TYPE C WAS MORE COMMON IN CHINA AND ISRAEL BECAUSE IN THE FIRST 12 MONTHS OF LIFE, CHILDREN SPEND A LOT OF TIME AWAY FROM THEIR MOTHERS 3 of 4 EVALUATION - WEAKNESSES THE CALCULATION OF AVERAGES WAS INVALID. THEY USED 18 STUDIES TO GET AN AVERAGE FOR THE USA BUT ONLY 1 FOR CHINA THE SAMPLE SIZE WAS INVALID. ALSO, NO COUNTRIES WERE USED FROM AFRICA OR SOUTH AMERICA THERE COULD BE OBSERVER BIAS AS DIFFERENT PEOPLE EVALUATED THE ATTACHMENT TYPE IN EACH STUDY MEDIA INFLUENCE AND GLOBALISATION COULD HAVE INFLUENCED THE WAY CHILDREN FORM ATTACHMENTS IN EACH CULTURES 4 of 4
Comments
No comments have yet been made