U.S.-China Research Planning Visit: Cross Cultural Study of Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment Modalities

9417938弗里德曼该奖项支持中国天津南开大学社会学(和心理学)教授岳国安博士与芝加哥大学首席研究员丹尼尔·弗里德曼领导的研究小组计划进行的联合研究访问。这是一项跨越两代人的关于儿童早期社会依恋的研究，它使用了当前的观察(通过录像带)和通过采访和问卷的回忆。这是一项跨文化研究，因为之前已经从冰岛人、韩裔美国人和孟加拉裔美国人那里获得了可比数据。这项研究的目的是解决关于母子依恋的文化相对性与文化共性的问题。这项研究将解决一系列问题：是否存在可识别的、特定于文化的母子依恋模式？母子关系的文化模式是否抵制代际变化？以历史为基础的社会变迁足以改变这种模式吗？如果母子关系模式被证明抵制改变，或者如果不是，哪个理论框架最能解释事实？

9417938 Freedman This award supports a planning visit for joint research between Dr. Guoan Yue, Professor of Sociology (and Psychology) at Nankai University, Tianjin, Peoples Republic of China, and a research group headed by the Principal Investigator, Daniel Freedman, at the University of Chicago. It is a study of social attachment in early childhood across two generations, and it uses current observation (via videotape) and recollections via an interview and questionnaire. It is a cross-cultural study in that comparable data have been previously obtained from Icelanders, Korean-Americans and Bengali-Americans. The purpose of the study is to address the issue of cultural relativity versus cultural universals with regard to mother-child attachments. The study will address a series of questions: Are there recognizable, culture-specific patterns of mother-child attachments? Are cultural patterns of mother-child relationships resistant to change across generations? Are historically based societal shifts sufficient to change such patterns? If mother- child relational patterns prove resistant to change, or if they do not, which theoretical framework best accounts for the facts?