Cultural variations in attachment

Question 1

What happened in Van Ljzendoorn and Kroonenberg’s (1988) cultural variations in attachment styles study?

Answer 1

A meta-analysis carried out on 32 studies using strange situation.

Research from 8 different countries was used - gave 1990 results for children

Secure attachment was the most common attachment style
Western - avoidant most common insecure
Non-western - resistant most common insecure

Question 2

What was found in Sagi (1991) study of american and Japanese infants?

Answer 2

Found that american infants 71% secure, 12% resistant, 17% avoidant compared to 0% avoidant in japan

Question 3

What are some issues with cross culture meta-analysis?

Answer 3

Cultural bias of cross-cultural research using the strange situation

There may be visible differences in behaviour across cultures but the idea of security is very similar and suggest universality