Personality dimensions that emerge in companion canines
Personality dimensions that emerge in companion canines
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DOI：
10.1016/j.applanim.2007.04.016
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发表时间：
2008-04-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Coleman, Grahame
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作者：
Ley, Jacqueline;Bennett, Pauleen;Coleman, Grahame
对狗性格的研究表明，性格概念可以应用于狗，但表明狗的性格可能不属于与人类性格相同的维度。为了研究这一点，我们使用以前用于表征人类性格的方法来探索犬类性格的结构。两个焦点小组的成员对专家和伴侣犬主人认为可能描述犬类性格特征的大量形容词进行了检查，确定了 203 个被认为适用于伴侣犬的形容词。在一项试点研究中，92 名参与者对这些形容词进行了评分，并利用统计和理论原理将单词数量减少到 67 个。随后，超过 1000 名主人根据这 67 个性格形容词对他们的伴侣犬进行了评分。主成分分析揭示了五个潜在因素，占总方差的32.6%。其中两个，外向性（方差为 8.3%）和神经质（4.6%），与其他物种中发现的维度相似，但不完全相同。其余三个，暂定为自信/动机（6.5%）、训练专注（6.7%）和友善（6.4%），可能是犬类所独有的，反映了人类对该物种施加的强烈而独特的选择压力。 (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. 保留所有权利。
Studies of dog personality have shown that personality concepts can be applied to dogs but suggest that canine personalities may not fall into the same dimensions as do human personalities. To investigate this, the structure of canine personality was explored using a method previously used to characterize human personality. A large number of adjectives believed by experts and companion dog owners to potentially describe canine personality traits were examined by the members of two focus groups, who identified 203 adjectives thought to be applicable to companion canines. These adjectives were rated by 92 participants in a pilot study and the number of words reduced to 67 using statistical and theoretical principles. Over 1000 owners then rated their companion dog on these 67 personality adjectives. Principal component analysis revealed five underlying factors that accounted for 32.6% of the total variance. Two of these, extraversion (8.3% of variance) and neuroticism (4.6%), are similar, but not identical, to dimensions identified in other species. The remaining three, tentatively labeled self-assuredness/motivation (6.5%), training focus (6.7%) and amicability (6.4%), may be unique to canines and reflective of the strong and unique selective pressures exerted on this species by humans. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.