Cultural Variation

Question 1

What was the aim

Answer 1

How attachment types differed between the cultures as well in between cultures through the use of strange situation to asses the quality of attachment

Question 2

What was the procedure

Answer 2

Van ijezdoorn did a meta analysis on 32 studies in 8 different countries with over 1990 children and infants being assessed using strange situation

Question 3

What was the findings

Answer 3

Secure attachment was highest in Britain. 75% and lowest in China 50%

Insecure avoidant attachment was highest in Germany but lowest in Japan and Israel

Insecure resistant it was highest in Japan lowest in the uk

The cultural variation was greater within culture than between different cultures x1.5 variation

Question 4

What was the conclusion of ccs

Answer 4

Secure attachment was the most common attachment and the variation was between culture and within cultures due to child rearing practices

Question 5

What was takahashi aim

Answer 5

To see the security of attachment I. Japanese kids to see if different child rearing practices affect the attachment

Question 6

What was the findings of the takahashmi

Answer 6

Secure attatchment was the most common types of attachment r as suggested by ainsweortg 65% whilst insecure resistant attachment was high but no evidence of insecure avoidant

Question 7

Conclusion. From takahashi

Answer 7

Different child rearing practise affects the security of attachment based on strange situation however secure attachment was still most common type of atta hme t

Question 8

Strength from takahashi

Answer 8

One strength is that it is a very large study with 2000 infants this increase in number means there are lots of results from different children studies this has led to more accurate findings as the numbers are large which decreases the number of anamalies and the effect of the anomaliesdue to methodoligacla errors or anomaly’s attachment that skew from the mean thus decreasing the effects of the anamolous leads to more accurate findings

Question 9

Weakness of CFC

Answer 9

The weakness is the method is biased towards non western cultures as the attachment test security of atttachment based on western child rearing oractises the situation.in strange situation is unrealistic and isn’t a likely daily scenario as takahashi stated that a care giver leaving a infant on their own is very unlikely this demonstrates the extreme distress the infant shows this is a weakness as the assessment doesn’t account for different to child rearing practices which are the norm of the culture so they miscorrectly categorise the infants and culturally biased

Question 10

Weakness

Answer 10

The disorganised attachment is unaccounted for includes inconsistent social intterction between infant and caregiver free reunion the infant is highly affectionate than avoidant including looking scared of the caregiver this is a weakness as the strange situation hadn’t account for this attatchment type which may have led miscategorisation as the cultural variation has used this attatchment types it has led to in accurate finding reducing validity of the findings