Attachment - Cultural variations

Question 1

van IJzendoorn and Krooenberg’s research

Answer 1

• Study to look at proportions of attachment types across countries to assess cultural variation

Question 2

Research procedure

Answer 2

• 32 studies of attachment spilt between 8 countries
• Studies yielded results of 1,990 children
• Meta-analysed meaning results were combined and analysed together

Question 3

Research findings

Answer 3

• Wide variation between attachment types in different countries
• Secure attachment was most common classification
• Rate of secure varied from 75% in UK to 50% in China
• Individualist cultures shared low rates of insecure resistant like Ainsworths study. (14%)
• Collectivist cultures like China, Japan had rates above 25%