Cultural Variations In Attachment

Question 1

Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg

Answer 1

Wanted to investigate whether there was similarities and differences in the ratio of attachment types in different cultures

Question 2

Procedures

Answer 2

Meta analysis
Combined 32 other studies of the strange situation from a variety of countries
Based on the observation of 1990 children.
The studies had used Strange situation procedure + observed only mother infant pairs.
Study also excluded any study using children older than 2year old.

Question 3

Meta analysis

Answer 3

Where research team collates and analyses data from many studies carried out by other researchers.

This makes it possible to gain a broad of findings

Researcher looks at the findings from a number of different studies in order to gain a GENERAL CONCLUSIO.

+ uses a wider range of findings so can generalise to more than one individualistic culture

• publication bias