Universality and Normativity of the Attachment Theory in Non-Western Psychiatric and Non-Psychiatric Samples: Multiple Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA)

This study tests for the first time validity of universality and normativity assumptions related to attachment theory in a non-Western culture, using novel design including psychiatric non-psychiatric samples as part comprehensive exploratory advanced confirmatory framework. Three assessments were distributed 212 outpatients 300 Yemen. The results fourteen approaches factor analysis (EFA) produce similar result assertion that tend explore outcomes based on multi-methods, while suggest an orientation multi-traits (self–other). multiple group-confirmatory (MG-CFA) demonstrates multi-method model fits better than samples. Equally, MG-CFA suggests also Implications are discussed.