Cultural variations in attachment

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which psychologists did the study for cultural differences in attachment and how?
Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg did a meta analysis over 8 countries that did ainsworth's strange situation, over 1990 infants took part.
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what were the results?
1.most followed the secure attachment type- suggesting it is the healthy framework for relationships
2.japan(27%) and Israel (29%) for collectivist culture, high levels of insecure resistant
3.germany(35%) for individualistic culture, high levels of-
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-insecure avoidant
it was concluded that the global trend reflected the us norm of secure attachment type, adding support that its the healthiest attachment style
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which psychologist argued cultural similarities and what did they say?
tronick et al, found efe tribe look after different children, even breastfeed them but the child still shows a preference to the primary caregiver supporting that secure attachment is the most common
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which psychologist argues cultural differences and what did they say?
grossman and grossman found germany practices independence from a young age and so they do not seek joy from caregivers at reunion.
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name all evaluations
-comparing (sub)cultures not countries ie Britain
-biased sample, 27/32 carried in individualistic cul.
-culturally biased, Ainsworth method in US so maybe doesn't work in diff cultures
-bowlby proposes that it is innate/bio fro survival not cultural-
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-but they countered this saying cross cultural can happen due to processes such as media.
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2.japan(27%) and Israel (29%) for collectivist culture, high levels of insecure resistant
3.germany(35%) for individualistic culture, high levels of-

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