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2023-2025 Year 12 A-Level Psychology Attachment: Cultural Variations of Types of Attachment

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This flashcard set covers Van Ijzendoorn’s study on cultural variations in attachment. It explains the aim to investigate cross-cultural differences using 32 Strange Situation studies from 8 countries with around 2000 children.

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What was the Aim of Van Ijzendoorn’s cultural variations?

To investigate cross cultural variations in attachment

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What was the Aim of Van Ijzendoorn’s cultural variations?

To investigate cross cultural variations in attachment

What was the sample of Van Ijzendoorn’s cultural variations?

32 studies of the Strange Situation from from 8 countries using 2000 children


How many children did cultural variations use?

2000

How many countries did the analysis of the strange situation in cultural variations use?

8 countries

Cultural variations in attachment in 32 studies of what other psychological study?

Strange situation

What was Van Ijzendoorn’s method?

Meta analysis of the strange situation (controlled obs)

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2023-2025 Year 12 A-Level Psychology Attachment: Cultural Variations of Types of Attachment
TermDefinition

What was the Aim of Van Ijzendoorn’s cultural variations?

To investigate cross cultural variations in attachment

What was the sample of Van Ijzendoorn’s cultural variations?

32 studies of the Strange Situation from from 8 countries using 2000 children


How many children did cultural variations use?

2000

How many countries did the analysis of the strange situation in cultural variations use?

8 countries

Cultural variations in attachment in 32 studies of what other psychological study?

Strange situation

What was Van Ijzendoorn’s method?

Meta analysis of the strange situation (controlled obs)

What is a meta- analysis?

Where a researcher will look at the results of pre-existing research and use the findings from it


Which was the most common attachment type in all cultures?

Secure

Which insecure attachment type was most dominant in western cultures?

Insecure avoidant

Which insecure attachment type was most dominant in non-western cultures?

Insecure resistant

What was the most significant finding?

there was 1.5x greater variation within cultures than between cultures.

What did Van Ijzendoorn conclude?

That there are cultural variations in attachment with differences between insecure attachment types, however there are still some similarities between attachments cross culturally as secure attachment was the most common.