Cultural correlates of adult attachment dimensions: comparing the US and Turkey

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Sakman, Ezgi and Sümer, Nebi (2024) Cultural correlates of adult attachment dimensions: comparing the US and Turkey. Cross-Cultural Research, 58 (2-3). pp. 208-237. ISSN 1069-3971 (Print) 1552-3578 (Online)

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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.
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: attachment anxiety/avoidance; cultural values/mindsets; cultural-fit hypothesis; universality versus culture specificity of attachment
Divisions: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Depositing User: Nebi Sümer
Date Deposited: 07 Jun 2024 21:24
Last Modified: 07 Jun 2024 21:24
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/49027

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