conclusion

• Overall consistency in secure attachment suggests that attachments are innate.
• Significant variations of insecure attachments suggest we need to consider variation in attachment in terms of child rearing practices/ environmental factors.
• Germany has high avoidant behaviour which is typical of independent children who do not make demands on parent but obey commands.
• Israeli children were reared in kibbutz so were used to being separated from their mother. As a result, they do not show anxiety when their mother leaves. However, they are not used to strangers so get distressed when left alone with the stranger which explains the high percentage of resistant behaviour.