Cross-cultural Research of Attachment Flashcards

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Aims of Cross Cultural Research

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=> Find out if attachment varies between cultures

=> Find out if Ainsworth’s Strange Situation procedure is ethnocentric

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Van Ijzendoorn + Kroonenburg’s Meta analysis

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Of 32 studies across 8 countries (15 in US)
Findings :
Secure was most common - 75% in Britain to 50% in China
IR - least w/ 3% in Britain + 30% in Israel
IA - most common in Germany, least in Japan

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Simonella (2014)

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Assessed 76 Italian 1 year olds in Strange Situation
Results: 50% secure, 36% IA

  • Concluded it was due to increasing amounts of women working long hours + using professional childcare
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Min Kyonug Jin et al (2012)

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Strange Situation w/ 87 Korean babies

=> Only 1 IA - reflects studies done in Japan where parents have similar child-rearing styles

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Use of Indigenous Researchers in Meta Analysis - AO3 (S)

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  • Studies conducted by psychologists from same cultural background as their place of research
    => Avoids biases, language barriers, stereotyping etc => Increases
  • Many studies in attachment, however, are collected by people from different cultures
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Confounding Variables - AO3 (L)

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Many diff. pieces of research in meta-analysis which can include;

  • Sample characteristics such as social class, age + rural/urban distribution
  • Environmental such as room size, toy availability + type

: affect + invalidate ability to compare 1 study to another

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Imposing an Etic - AO3 (L)

=> imposing a test designed for 1 culture to another

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=> Strange Situation was designed for babies in US to assess their behaviour

=> Those in diff cultures could react differently according to cultural norms but not mean diff attachment

=> Could render comparisons meaningless

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Role of the Media? - AO3 (S)

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  • Van Ijzendoorn + Kroonenburg suggest alt. theory to Bowlby’s theories of attachment as innate + universal
  • Due to some behaviours of observed across culture
  • Argues the global media’s more of a factor than intrinsic ones
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