AO1

• Aim?

  -Van Ijzendoorn aimed to investigate cross cultural attachment types through a meta analysis of research that had studied attachments in other cultures
• The meta analysis

  -compared the findings of 32 studies from 8 countries that had used the Strange Situation to measure attachment
• What was the USA secure attachment percentage

  -65%
• What was Germany's avoidant attachment percentage

  35%
• What was Israel resistant attachment percentage

  -29%
• What was Japan's resistant attachment percentage

  27%
• What attachment was most common

  -secure
• What attachment was least common

  Insecure resistant
• There was a GREATER variation of attachment type...

  -within cultures rather than between
• Simonella (2014) looked at

  -76 12 month old infants using the strange situation and found 50% were securely attached and 26% avoidant

  -he found a lower secure attachment than previously suggested that this was because mothers worked more long hours and used childcare
• Define metanalysis

  -researchers combine the findings from multiple studies to draw an overall conclusion