Abstract
The home environment is a particularly significant part of life that is supposed to satisfy inhabitants’ needs, form their identity, and contribute to psychological wellbeing. The construct of home attachment is especially relevant for students as a most mobile social group. This study is devoted to the validation of the Short Home Attachment Scale (SHAS) in a student sample from five countries (Armenia, India, Indonesia, Russia, and Ukraine). A total of 1,349 (17–26 years; Mage = 19.82, SDage = 2.14; 78% females) university students participated in the study and filled in the 14 items of HAS. In order to avoid redundant items with high error covariances damaging the model, a new scale—the SHAS was developed by eliminating seven items. The shortened scale has satisfactory structure validity in terms of model fit in all countries except Indonesia; internal reliability values were acceptable in all countries. Measurement invariance across countries was tested with Multi-Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MG CFA) and Alignment Analysis. MG CFA confirmed both configurational and metric invariance. The invariance of item factor loadings, as well as item intercepts, was also confirmed by the Alignment Analysis. The mean scores varied across cultures, with the highest in India and the lowest in Russia. The final version of SHAS is a valid, reliable tool that may be recommended for use in cross-cultural research. However, the SHAS factor structure robustness in the Indonesian population should be investigated thoroughly.
Highlights
East or West home is the best An English sayingThe current paper’s aim is to develop a short cross-culturally invariant standardized tool–the Short Home Attachment Scale (SHAS) validated in the student sample from five cultures: Armenia, India, Indonesia, Russia, and Ukraine
The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) results conducted on the Russian sample showed that some semantically close items of the questionnaire had high error covariances and/or low factor loadings
This paper reports the results of the structural validation of a new standardized instrument–SHAS, which was examined in five countries (Armenia, India, Indonesia, Russia, and Ukraine)
Summary
East or West home is the best An English sayingThe current paper’s aim is to develop a short cross-culturally invariant standardized tool–the Short Home Attachment Scale (SHAS) validated in the student sample from five cultures: Armenia, India, Indonesia, Russia, and Ukraine. Home attachment is important to study due to several longterm and ongoing changes in the lifestyles of humankind, in the first line, for intellectual youth,. A Short Home Attachment Scale and students (Di Masso et al, 2019; Robinson, 2020; Rathakrishnan et al, 2021). They leave home for university and have to solve the problem of overcoming attachment to their parents’ home, establishing a new one in temporary housing–a dormitory or a rented apartment (Heidmets and Liik, 2021; Lacerda et al, 2022). An empty nest turns into a crowded nest (Seiffge-Krenke, 2016) These features of modern life require the development of a reliable, stable tool for measuring the home attachment level
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