Attachment: Cultural Variations Of Types Of Attachment DS

Question 1

What was the Aim of Van Ijzendoorn’s cultural variations?

Answer 1

To investigate cross cultural variations in attachment

Question 2

What was the sample of Van Ijzendoorn’s cultural variations?

Answer 2

32 studies of the Strange Situation from from 8 countries using 2000 children

Question 3

How many children did cultural variations use?

Answer 3

2000

Question 4

How many countries did the analysis of the strange situation in cultural variations use?

Answer 4

8 countries

Question 5

Cultural variations in attachment in 32 studies of what other psychological study?

Answer 5

Strange situation

Question 6

What was Van Ijzendoorn’s method?

Answer 6

Meta analysis of the strange situation (controlled obs)

Question 7

What is a meta- analysis?

Answer 7

Where a researcher will look at the results of pre-existing research and use the findings from it

Question 8

Which was the most common attachment type in all cultures?

Answer 8

Secure

Question 9

Which insecure attachment type was most dominant in western cultures?

Answer 9

Insecure avoidant

Question 10

Which insecure attachment type was most dominant in non-western cultures?

Answer 10

Insecure resistant

Question 11

What was the most significant finding?

Answer 11

there was 1.5x greater variation within cultures than between cultures.

Question 12

What did Van Ijzendoorn conclude?

Answer 12

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.