to look at the proportions of secure, insecure resistant and insecure avoidant attatchment types across different cultures.
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what else did they look at besides variations across cultures?
variations WITHIN cultures
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what was their procedure?
they conducted a meta analysis where they looked at the results from 32 different strange situation experiments.
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where were the experiments that they looked at conducted originally?
8 different countries however 15 of those were from the USA
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how many children in total were involved in the meta analysis?
1,992
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how was the issue of varying sample sizes in each study accounted for?
their effect size was weighted and accounted for.
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which attachment type across the board was the most common?
secure
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which was the least common attachment type?
insecure resistant
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which country had the lowest proportion of securely attached children?
china
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which country had the most insecure avoidant?
Germany
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which country had the least insecure avoidant
japan
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which results showed a 150% variation between studies?
studies conducted in the same country
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give an example
in america, one study found that 46% were securely attached whereas another found that 90% were securely attached
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what results did simonella find in his study in italy?
that the rates of secure attachment were far lower than concluded in previous studies
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what did he put this down to?
the fact that in this modern world; mothers are working more and leaving their babies to go to work at an earlier age than before
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what does the fact that japan and Korea have similar results suggest?
that child rearing practices play an important role in how children become attached
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what is a methodological strength of ijzendoorns study?
it was a meta analysis therefore the sample size was very large meaning there was good internal validity and the effects of anomalous results were minimised
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what is wrong about the fact that van ijzendoorn claimed to have studied cultural variations?
he in fact studied cross country variations. there re many different cultures within one country alone.
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what is the limitation of using Ainsworths assessment as a comparison tool across different countries?
its a very western assessment, it is not appropriate to use it in cultures when those techniques are not the norm. the results will be skewed.
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what did ijzendoorn suggest was the reason for similar results being found across different cultures?
the effects of mass media. similar notions of parenting styles are advertised in many different countries
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what is wrong with the strange situation as an assessment technique all together? what might it really be assessing?
the levels of anxiety due to the disposition of the child rather than the quality of attachment to their caregiver.
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what else did they look at besides variations across cultures?
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variations WITHIN cultures
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what was their procedure?
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where were the experiments that they looked at conducted originally?
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how many children in total were involved in the meta analysis?
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