Zusammenfassung der Ressource
cultural variation in attachment
- studies of cultural variations
- Ijzendoorn & Kroonenberg
- looked at proportions of the 3 types of
attachments in different countries
- procedure
- meta analysed 32 studies of the strange situation
- 8 countries
- 15/32 in the USA
- 1990 children
- findings
- secure was most common
- insecure resistant least
common - mainly in
collective
- insecure avoidant - mainly in
individualistic
- other places
- Italy
- Simonella
- 76, 12 month olds
- 50% secure
- 36% insecure avoidant
- more mothers working longer hours
- cultural differences make a big difference
- Korea
- Jin
- 87 children
- similar to Japan
- mainly secure
- or insecure resistant
- conclusion
- secure is the norm
- supporting Bowlby that attachment is innate
- still differences
depending where it is
- evaluation
- large samples
- combined results
- increases internal validity
- reduces anomalous results
- unrepresentative to culture
- comparisons between countries not cultures
- within countries many different cultures
- e.g.
- urban Japan = similar to Western countries
- rural = more insecure resistant
- method of assessment in biased
- imposed etic
- applying a foreign technique/
theory to another country
- evaluation +
- alternative explanation for
cultural similarity
- Bowlby = attachment are innate
(should be the same everywhere)
- Ijzendoorn & Kroonenberg
- differences due to media
- the strange situation lacks validity
- Kagan
- suggested = attachment is down to temperament
- is the strange situation simply measuring anxiety