The Brief Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale: measurement invariance in India, Italy, Poland, and Russia.

ABSTRACT: Pet attachment is a phenomenon widely studied in various cultures, but little attention has been devoted to whether it varies across cultures. This topic requires a valid invariant instrument to measure pet attachment. Thus, the aim of this study was cross-cultural examination of the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale (LAPS). A total of 906 respondents from India, Italy, Poland, and Russia took part in the study. The initial version of LAPS has 23 items and three factors: General attachment, People substitution, and Animal rights/welfare. We expected that (1) LAPS retains its structure across the four countries studied, and that (2) the level of pet attachment varies from country to country. The confirmatory factor analysis did not support the original three-factor structure in all the cou

SUBMITTER: Nartova-Bochaver SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12239344 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature