Cultural Correlates of Adult Attachment Dimensions: Comparing the US and Turkey

IF 2.3 3区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Cross-Cultural Research Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI:10.1177/10693971231220437

Ezgi Sakman, Nebi Sümer

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Abstract

Mainstream attachment literature has chiefly employed WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) samples, yet cross-cultural studies investigating attachment dynamics outside of Western world corroborated universality of the basic tenets of attachment theory and normativity of attachment security. Importantly, these studies revealed country-level differences in the prevalence of insecure attachment tendencies. Of note, this line of work bears the limitation of reducing culture to country and relying on the individualism versus collectivism dichotomy. The present study offers a novel examination of individual-level links between distinct cultural mindsets and distinct attachment orientations. We investigated two community samples ( NTurkey = 368, NUSA = 350) from two diverse cultural contexts by employing an assorted battery of cultural value measures, including both overt and covert measures of cultural indicators. Results revealed distinct relationships between attachment anxiety and the interdependent mindset and attachment avoidance and the independent mindset in both cultural contexts. Findings are discussed in light of cultural implications.

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成人依恋维度的文化相关性：美国与土耳其的比较

主流依恋文献主要采用 WEIRD（西方的、受过教育的、工业化的、富裕的和民主的）样本，然而调查西方世界以外依恋动态的跨文化研究证实了依恋理论基本原则的普遍性和依恋安全的规范性。重要的是，这些研究揭示了不安全依恋倾向的流行程度在国家层面的差异。值得注意的是，这种研究方法存在将文化归结为国家和依赖个人主义与集体主义二分法的局限性。本研究对不同文化心态与不同依恋倾向之间的个体层面联系进行了新颖的探讨。我们调查了来自两种不同文化背景的两个社区样本（NTurkey = 368，NUSA = 350），采用了各种文化价值测量方法，包括文化指标的公开和隐蔽测量方法。结果显示，在这两种文化背景下，依恋焦虑与相互依存心态、依恋回避与独立心态之间存在明显的关系。本文从文化影响的角度对研究结果进行了讨论。

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Cross-Cultural Research SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Cross-Cultural Research, formerly Behavior Science Research, is sponsored by the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) and is the official journal of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research. The mission of the journal is to publish peer-reviewed articles describing cross-cultural or comparative studies in all the social/behavioral sciences and other sciences dealing with humans, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, economics, human ecology, and evolutionary biology. Worldwide cross-cultural studies are particularly welcomed, but all kinds of systematic comparisons are acceptable so long as they deal explicity with cross-cultural issues pertaining to the constraints and variables of human behavior.