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

9417938 Freedman本奖项支持中华人民共和国天津南开大学社会学（和心理学）教授岳国安博士与首席研究员丹尼尔·弗里德曼（Daniel Freedman）领导的芝加哥大学研究小组的联合研究计划访问。这是一项跨越两代人对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）和通过访谈和问卷调查的回忆。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。本研究的目的是探讨母子依恋的文化相对性与文化普遍性的关系。这项研究将解决一系列问题：是否存在可识别的、特定文化的母子依恋模式？母子关系的文化模式是否会在几代人之间发生变化？基于历史的社会变迁是否足以改变这种模式？如果母子关系模式被证明是难以改变的，或者没有，那么哪个理论框架能最好地解释事实？

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?