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Question | Answer |
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scientist | Van ijzendoorn & kroonenberg |
Aim | How does attachment work in different cultures investigate the types of attachment across culture if attachment styles are universal |
Procedure | Meta Analysis - analsyed data from other studies All -strange situation -only mother-infant pairs -Classified infants into the attachment types calculated the average percentage for different attachment styles 32 study samples from 8 countries |
Findings | secure attachment was the most common lowest china highest UK individualistic countries had high levels of anxious avoidant attachment collectivist had high levels of ambivalent resistant. |
Conclusion | consistency in secure attachment - may be universal characteristics that underpin infant and caregiver interactions insecure attachments demonstrate that universality is limited german independence - avoidant israeli kibbitz |
Limitation | The strange situation was created & tested in the USA which means that it may be culturally biased as it will reflect the norms and values of American culture |