evaluation

• Evalaute large sample

  • Ijzendoorn and kroonenberg meta-analysis - nearly 2000 babies
  • Increased internal validity because it reduces anomalous results caused by bad methodology or unusual participants
  • Confident in our findings
• evaluate sample unrepresentative of culture?

  • in the meta-analysis, comparisons were between countries not cultures
  • within countries, there are many different cultures with different child-rearing practices.
  • ijzendoorn and sagi - found that distributions of attachment type in Tokyo were similar to the western studies
  • whereas, a rural sample had over representation of insecure resistant individuals
  • comparisons between countries may have little mearning
• what is meant by etic?

  cultural universals
• what is meany but emic?

  cultural uniqueness
• evalaute method of assessment is biased?

  • the strange situations was designed by an american researcher based on a British theory
  • controversial whether Anglo-American theories and assessments can be applied to other cultures
  • imposed etic- trying to apply theory or techniques designed for one culture to another.
  • for example, lack of seperation= insecure attachemtn. but in Germany this behaviour might be seen as more independent than avoidance