- Analyzing the Relationship Between Dog Ownership and Stress Levels
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- Assessing the human-animal bond
Assessing the Human-Animal Bond: A Compendium of Actual Measures gathers in one place those measures presently used to study the human-companion animal bond.
- Attachment to Pets and Interpersonal Relationships
The goal of the present research is to investigate pet attachment and measure the connection between owner-pet attachment and interpersonal attachment characteristics of dog owners and cat owners, social support and loneliness. From a sample of 268 dog and 97 cat owners, significant differences on pet attachment appeared between pet owners’ gender, owners living location, kinds of pets and the length of ownership. The pedigree of pets influenced owner-pet attachment levels.
- Companion Animal Psychology
One of the key things that would help to improve the success rates of trainee working dogs would be wider recognition of the sum of all the parts that make a successful working dog. It’s not just the training methods used, it’s not just the genetics, it’s also the socialization and puppy raising process
- Companion animals and human health
The welfare of therapy, assistance and even companion animals is important but tends to be overlooked because welfare issues in other animal sectors are so pressing. However, animals are not always guaranteed a good quality of life just because they play meaningful roles in the lives of people.
- Do Animals Know Who they Are?
What do these animals make of themselves when they look in a mirror, see their reflection in water, hear their own or another's song or howl, or smell themselves and others? Is it possible that self-awareness — "Wow that's me!" — is a uniquely human trait? - See more at: http://www.livescience.com/39803-do-animals-know-who-they-are.html#sthash.yJSdICwb.dpuf
- How Social Trends Affect Pet Ownership
Research on Human - Animal Interactions Has Found Evidence that:
1. Presence of pets is associated with de-arousal — e.g. short - term reductions in heart - rate/blood pressure; subjective feelings of calmness, relaxation.
2. Pet ownership is associated with increased social interaction with others (social catalyst).
3. Pet ownership is associated with fewer risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
4. Pet ownership is associated with improved survivorship with cardiovascular disease.
5. Pet ownership linked to less deterioration in health in response to life events and chronic stress.
6. Pet ownership associated with sustained reductions in people’s physiological reactions to experimental stressors
- Human-Canine Relationships: Dog Behavior and Owner Perceptions
Owning a dog has many physiological and psychological advantages; however, dog behavior can manifest itself in a variety of negative ways, including aggression. Research suggested that genetics and environment might play a role in aggression. It was demonstrated that owners can affect their dogs’ behaviors.
- Metamorphic Relationships With Pets
Using depth interviews and participant observation, the predominant metaphors that emerge in pet owners' relationships with theiranimals are pets as pleasures, problems, parts of self, members of the family, and toys.
- Relationship of Pet Attachment and Self-Esteem among Adolescents in Hong Kong
This study was designed to examine the relationship between pet attachment and self-esteem among adolescents in Hong Kong. In this study, two hypotheses were formulated. Hypothesis one was adolescent pet owners who score higher on pet attachment scale showed significantly higher score on the self esteem scale.
- Scientific American Self Awareness Article
Consciousness, most scientists would argue, is not a shared property of all matter in the universe. Rather consciousness is restricted to a subset of animals with relatively complex brains. The more scientists study animal behavior and brain anatomy, however, the more universal consciousness seems to be. A brain as complex as a human's is definitely not necessary for consciousness.
- Self-consciousness Definition
Self-consciousness is an acute sense of self-awareness. It is a preoccupation with oneself, as opposed to the philosophical state of self-awareness, which is the awareness that one exists as an individual being; although some writers use both terms interchangeably or synonymously.
- Service Animal vs. Companion Animal
The ADA defines a service animal as any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability.”
Companion animals not individually trained to perform any specific kind of task. Instead, the principal service that companion animals provide is simply that—companionship.
- Service vs emotional support animal (PDF)
A handy PDF chart of the characteristics of a service and companion pet.
- The Best Writing Book I’ve Ever Read
Have you ever read a book that makes you realize how little you actually know about a subject? I thought I knew something about the writing craft. After all, I’ve been studying it since I was seventeen and writing about it on this blog for the last two years.
- The relationship between empathy and pet ownership in late childhood
Many theorists have found companion animals to play an important role in the socio-
emotional development of a child. The current study aims to extend this research by
exploring links between empathy and pet ownership, pet attitudes and pet attachment
in late childhood.
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