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13th September 2005 Louise Collins Consider what psychological research has shown us about cross-cultural variations in attachment Researchers in many different countries have used the Strange Situation to investigate secure and insecure attachment. The results of 32 such studies undertaken in eight different countries have been summarised by Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg (1988). Bee (1999) points out that the most striking finding is that there is considerable consistency across cultures, and concludes that it is likely that the same caregiver-infant interactions contribute to secure and insecure attachments in all cultures. However, fours countries stand out in this research as having a larger than average proportion of insecurely attached children: Japan, Israel, Germany and China. In the study cited in Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenburg's research, 25% of Japanese children were insecure resistant in their attachment organisation. Takahashi challenged these findings and set up a study to consider whether it is appropriate to use the Strange...

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