Cultural variations for attachment

• Procedure of cultural variations for attachment study

  Van ijzendoorn and kroonenburg meta analysis, same strange situation procedures, measire attachment in 8 countries with 32 studies using 2000 children
• Findings of cultural variations for attachment study

  countries: Britain, sweden, japan, netherlands, USA, israel, germany, china.

  Overall secure was most common then avoidant then resistant.

  Britain most secure (75%), Germany + netherland high avoidant (35%+26%), israel + japan high resistant (29%+27%)
• What is a strength of the cultural variations for attachment study

  High validity = researchers shared nationality of participants, few language misunderstandings, less mistakes more valid results
• What is a weakness of the cultural variations for attachment study 


  overrepresentation of western culture = most of the 32 studies were in the USA
• What is a weakness of the cultural variations in attachment study

  Culturally bias to west = eastern babies are separated less so anxiety would be more extreme