cultural variations

• van izjendoorn 1988

  • conducted a study to look at proportion of attachment types
  • looked at differences within a country
  • 32 studies conducted in 8 countries and then meta analysed
• findings

  • secure most common varying from 75 in Britain to 50 in china
  • insecure resistant least common ranging from 3 in britain to 30 in israel
  • insecure avoidant was most common in germany and least common in japan
  • variations between results within countries were 150% greater than between