Comparing Attachment Networks During Middle Childhood in Two Contrasting Cultural Contexts

The Multiple Contexts of Middle Childhood

During middle childhood, children begin to navigate their own ways through societal structures, forming ideas about their individual talents and aspirations for the future. The ability to forge a positive pathway can have major implications for their success as adults. The pathways to success, however, may differ for children of diverse cultural, racial, ethnic, and national backgrounds. This a...

Contrasting Two Surveillance Contexts According to Acceptance

Surveillance technologies are used all over the world for various reasons. In urban environments, surveillance technologies are predominantly used for detecting or preventing crimes. Simultaneously, an increasing number of technologies are used for medical monitoring at home, but also at clinical facilities, and at public environments for assuring patients’ medical safety. An intensive policy d...

The Cultural Construction of Subject Discipline Knowledge: Comparing 'abstraction' in Two International Contexts

This paper uses a comparative methodology to examine the teaching of abstraction in two mathematics lessons, in Denmark and England. In doing so it aims to extend previous work by the authors, examining the effect of local, cultural issues on the form of teaching in order to understand how these also affect the subject content too. The analysis draws on two theoretical frameworks: the work of H...

Symbolic Power in Cultural Contexts SYMBOLIC POWER IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS

Sex-biased ratio of avoidant/ambivalent attachment in middle childhood

In this study, new evidence is presented of marked sex differences in the distribution of insecure attachment patterns in middle childhood. Attachment was assessed with the Manchester Child Attachment Story Task (MCAST) in a sample of 122 Italian 7-yearolds. The four-way distribution of attachment patterns was significantly unbalanced, with insecure boys more often avoidant (27%) than ambivalen...