creators_name: Masoumeh Alavi, 
creators_name: Adibah Abdul Latif, 
creators_name: Mohd Tajudin Ninggal, 
creators_name: Mohamed Sharif Mustaffa, 
creators_name: Mansour Amini, 
type: article
datestamp: 2021-07-21 11:05:33
lastmod: 2021-07-21 11:05:33
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title: Family Functioning and Attachment among Young Adults in Western and Non-Western Societies
ispublished: pub
subjects: BF
full_text_status: none
keywords: Family cohesion, family adaptability, anxiety attachment, close attachment, depend attachment
abstract: Family functioning (FF) is associated with patterns of adults’ close relationship attachment, which works differently in western and non-western societies. In this study, the relationship between FF and attachment (A), as well as the difference in relationship between FF and A across western and non-western societies were examined. A total of 600 young adults (294 males, 306 females) were recruited from western and non-western societies through the SurveyCircle and social media and communication applications. The data was analyzed using PLS-SEM and multigroup analysis, and the results showed that in western and non-western societies, family adaptability and cohesion were significantly associated with anxiety, close, and depend attachments. Unexpectedly, higher family adaptability was associated with higher anxiety attachment. The associations among family adaptability and cohesion with anxiety …
date: 2020-07
date_type: published
publication: The Journal of Psychology
volume: 154
number: 5
publisher: Routledge
pagerange: 346-366
id_number: https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2020.1754153
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1940-1019
official_url: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=vjrl20
citation:   Masoumeh Alavi,  and Adibah Abdul Latif,  and Mohd Tajudin Ninggal,  and Mohamed Sharif Mustaffa,  and Mansour Amini,   (2020) Family Functioning and Attachment among Young Adults in Western and Non-Western Societies.  The Journal of Psychology, 154 (5).  pp. 346-366.  ISSN 1940-1019