Cultural Variations in Attachment

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

Assessed how types of attachments vary in different countries

Question 2

Procedure

Answer 2

• Used a meta-analysis to locate 32 studies conducted in 8 countries
• Yielded results for 1990 children

Question 3

Positive Evaluation

Answer 3

• Use of indigenous Practices
  
  • Studies conducted by researchers with the same cultural background as them avoided any misunderstandings
• eg; Grossmann, Takahashi

Question 3

Findings

Answer 3

• Secure attachments was the most common type
• Low avoidant attachment in collectivist nations
  (Israel, China, Japan)
• Similar rates of resistant attachments in collectivist nations

Question 4

Negative Evaluation

Answer 4

• Confounding variables
  
  • Studies conducted in different countries are not usually matched for methodology when compared in meta-analysis
• Factors such as poverty, social class, environment, age