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How many studies were included in the meta-analysis?
32
What were the 8 countries where these studies took place?
USA
UK
Japan
Israel
China
Sweden
Netherlands
Germany
How many different assessments of children's attachments types were analysed using the strange situation technique (SST)?
1990
Which attachment type was the most common in all 8 countries?
secure (type B)
What proportion of the British children assessed had secure attachment?
75%
What proportion of the Chinese children assessed had secure attachment?
50%
Which attachment type was the least common in 6/8 countries, such as Britain with only 3%, although Israel had 29%?
Insecure resistant (type C)
Germany had the highest proportion of insecure-avoidant attachment type, with what percentage?
35%
Japan had the smallest proportion of insecure-avoidant attachment type, with what percentage?
5%
Out of all of the studies used, how many were done in the USA?
18
And how many were done in China, Sweden and the UK?
1
Overall there wasn't much variation in the results between each country, but there was in the different studies within countries. For example, one USA study found [__]% to be securely attached, and another only [__]%.