cultural variations

• van ijzendoorn and kroonenberg conducted a meteanalysis of 32 studies of the strange situation
• van ijzendoorn and kroonenberg found that china had the lowest % of securely attached children and the uk had the highest
• van ijzendoorn and kroonenberg found that Germany had the highest % of insecure avoidant children and japan+Israel had the lowest
• a limitation of van ijzendoorn and kroonenbergs study into cultural variations of attachment is that its a meta analysis, meaning its hard to know how reliable the results are as they didnt produce them
• cultural differences may be due to different parenting styles or child rearing practices rather than culture itself
• secure attachments seem to be the norm in many countries/cultures - supporting bowlby's idea that attachment is innate so universal, However, research also clearly shows that cultural practices do influence attachment type
• strength of van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg's study - indigenous researchers - limits language barriers and one nations stereotype of another. - increased validity