cross-cultural patterns of attachment

Question 1

Why is this study important?

Answer 1

if attachments is evolution then there would be similar patterns of types of attachments found across all societies

Question 2

what is aim 1 of the study?

Answer 2

to assess whether within separate samples there was a pattern in the distribution of different attachment types

Question 3

what is aim 2 of the study?

Answer 3

to assess the xtent of inter-between and intra within cultural differences in attachment types in separate samples

Question 4

what is aim 3 of the study?

Answer 4

To assess the similarities and differences in the amount of type A-C attachment types in separate samples

Question 5

what was the procedure of the study?

Answer 5

• a meta analysis of 32 studies from 8 countries that used the strange situation procedure to assess mother-children attachments and which classified attachments as either A B or C.
• 1,9990 separate strange situation classifications were used.
• all studies compromised at least 35 mother-infant pairs with infants below 2 years old

Question 6

what were the findings?

Answer 6

overall attachment type was A-21% B-67% and C 12%
in samples from all countries (except germany) the modal attachment type was type B
Type A was found more in western cultures whereas type C was found more in isreal,china and japan

Question 7

What were the conclusions of the study?

Answer 7

• the data suggests there is a difference in the pattern of cross-cultural attachment types
• overall patterns of attachment types were similar to what ainsworth found
• an important cross-cultural similarity is the predominance of type B