cultural variations Flashcards
Van Ijzendoorn & Kroonenberg : AIM
to investigate how attachment types vary across cultures
Van Ijzendoorn & Kroonenberg : PROCEDURE
- completed a meta-analysis on 32 studies using Ainsworth’s Strange Situation of over 2000 babies
- attachment types of both between and within cultures was studied
Van Ijzendoorn & Kroonenberg : FINDINGS
- secure attachment was the most common in all cultures
- Germany had the highest number of avoidant chidren
- japan had very few avoidant children but had a high proportion of resistant children
- there was 1.5 x more variation within cultures than between cultures
Van Ijzendoorn & Kroonenberg : CONCLUSION
- caregiver and infant interactions were similar around the world with some intra-cultural variation
- could be due to mass media
evaluation of Van Ijzendoorn & Kroonenberg
culture or countries
large scale research
Korea
different sample sizes
culture : EVALUATION OF VAN JIJZENDOORN AND KROONENBERG
- the study compare countries rather than cultures
- within each country there are many different subcultures
- this is supported by the fact that different researchers found more variance within cultures than between cultures
large scale research : EVALUATION OF VAN JIJZENDOORN AND KROONENBERG
- the study had a huge sample
- this significantly developed our understanding of different child rearing practices around the world
Korea : EVALUATION OF VAN JIJZENDOORN AND KROONENBERG
Jin et al
- assess 87 children and found that most infants were secure, apart from one, the others were resistant
- similar to Japan in Van Ijzendoor and Kroonenberg’s study
- could be because Korea has similar parenting styles to Japan
different sample sizes : EVALUATION OF VAN JIJZENDOORN AND KROONENBERG
- 18/32 studies were from the US and Japan only has 2 studies
- this distorts the overall findings
- makes it difficult to make true cultural comparisons
