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psychology: paper 1:
psychology: paper 1: attachment: cultural variations in attachment style:
Question | Answer |
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1. who are the researchers in the cultural variations in attachment style research? | Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg et al (1988) |
2. what year did Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg conduct their study? | 1988 |
3. what was Ijzendoorn's and Kroonenberg's aims? | to investigate if there were significant differences in the secure, insecure avoidant and insecure resistant attachments in a range of countries |
4. what was Ijzendoorn's and Kroonenberg's procedure? | meta analysis of 32 studies in 8 different countries for 1990 children |
5. what are the findings? | variations within the same country were 1.5x greater than those between countries all had secure attachment as the most UK 77% secure 2% resistent and 21% avoidant whereas japan was 69% secure, 29% resistent and 3% avoidant |
6. explain Takahashi's (1990) study? | recreate strange situation study using 60 middle class Japanese babies finding there was high insecure attachments as babies are not used to being separated from mothers |
7. explain Grossman and Grossman's (1991) study | found babies in West Germany were more likely to be insecurely attached because in Germany they value independence |
8. strength of the methodology of Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg's research? | meta analysis using a large sample of 1900 children is very representative |
9. how were the samples used in the meta analysis unrepresentative of cultures though? | very little meaning in comparison to whole countries as many sub cultures found eg same country had 1.5x greater variations than between countries |
10. how does Bowlby's theory offer an alternative explanation to why there are similarities in the findings? | attachment is an innate mechanism so there would be variations regardless of culture |