Attachment: Cultural Variations Of Types Of Attachment DS Flashcards
What was the Aim of Van Ijzendoorn’s cultural variations?
To investigate cross cultural variations in attachment
What was the sample of Van Ijzendoorn’s cultural variations?
32 studies of the Strange Situation from from 8 countries using 2000 children
How many children did cultural variations use?
2000
How many countries did the analysis of the strange situation in cultural variations use?
8 countries
Cultural variations in attachment in 32 studies of what other psychological study?
Strange situation
What was Van Ijzendoorn’s method?
Meta analysis of the strange situation (controlled obs)
What is a meta- analysis?
Where a researcher will look at the results of pre-existing research and use the findings from it
Which was the most common attachment type in all cultures?
Secure
Which insecure attachment type was most dominant in western cultures?
Insecure avoidant
Which insecure attachment type was most dominant in non-western cultures?
Insecure resistant
What was the most significant finding?
there was 1.5x greater variation within cultures than between cultures.
What did Van Ijzendoorn conclude?
That there are cultural variations in attachment with differences between insecure attachment types, however there are still some similarities between attachments cross culturally as secure attachment was the most common.