Cultural variations in attachment

• Van ijzendoorn and kroonenberg conducted a meta-analysis cross culturally to investigate attachment types across different cultures they analysed data from 32 studies in 8 different countries
• Procedure

  Conducted a meta-analysis of other strange situation studies to investigate the proportion of insecure avoidant , secure and insecure resistant attachments across cultures such as Germany Britain Holland Sweden Israel Japan and china
• Results

  Overall, the most prevalent attachment type across cultures was secure attachment. However, Germany had the highest percentage of insecure-avoidant children, with 35%, while Israel had the highest percentage of insecure-resistant children, with 29%.
• Conclusion

  This suggests that there are differences in the patterns of attachment types both across and within cultures, with intra-cultural differences in attachment types often being greater than inter-cultural ones.