cultural variations

• Ljzendoorn and Kroonenberg (1988): meta-analysis collected secondary data of replications to ainsworth's strange situation to find average percentage of attachment types in each country

  • secure attachment style was most common

  concluding that there may be universal characteristics that support infant and caregiver interactions
• cultural research evaluation:

  strength:

  • large sample and can be generalised

  weakness:

  • ethnocentric as it assumes that all cultures have the same behaviour - potential cultural bias
  • research was secondary data and may have been different - different toys, different rooms