attachment

Question 1

study from van IJzendoorm and Kroonenberg

Answer 1

• done in 1988
• 32 studies of attachment behaviour
• 8 countries studied
• used 2000 strange situations
• US had the most studies (18)
• China, Sweden and UK had only one study
• Secure attachment most common and most frequent in Sweden and UK
• Insecure resistant least common apart from in Japan and Israel
• Insecure avoidant most common in West Germany, least in Japan and Israel
• Japan and Israel was a collectivist culture in 1988
• methodology: meta-analysis - increases validity
• Aim: looking to see if there are interculture differences and intraculture differences in attachment
• Findings: variation within cultures, 1.5x greater than variation between cultures