Developing a Prototype of the Japanese Version of Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale (2) – Criterion-related Validity

Conference: The Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences (ACP2022)
Title: Developing a Prototype of the Japanese Version of Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale (2) – Criterion-related Validity
Stream: General Psychology
Presentation Type: Virtual Poster Presentation
Authors:
Tomomi Nakatani, Graduate School of Humanities, Konan University, Japan
Yoshikazu Fukui, Konan University, Japan

Abstract:

We developed a prototype of Japanese version of the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale (LAPS-J) to examine the effects of attachment to pets on Japanese people's psychological and physical health. A previous study has partially confirmed LAPS-J's internal consistency and construct validity (Nakatani & Fukui, 2021). However, the validity study was insufficient. We anticipated that dog owners would have a stronger attachment to their pets than cat owners, and women would have a slightly stronger attachment to pets than men. Therefore, this study examined the criterion-related validity of LAPS-J by considering differences in attachment to pets by the type of pet and gender. We administered a questionnaire survey to the participants (N = 406). The data overlapped with Nakatani & Fukui (2021). We used the factor scores of each subscale because the LAPS-J does not have a simple factor structure (Nakatani & Fukui, 2021). The results of an ANOVA indicated that the main effect of gender and the interactions between the type of pet and the type of subfactor, and between gender and the type of subfactor were significant. Simple main effect tests revealed that the substituting for human relationships factor score was higher in owners of dogs than cats; women were more attached to their pets than men in all factor scores, excluding substituting for human factor score, and the facilitating communication factor score was higher than substituting for human relationships factor score in women; vice versa in men. These findings partially confirmed the criterion-related validity of the LAPS-J.

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