Behavioral and Self-report Measures Influencing Children's Reported Attachment to Their Dog.
Behavioral and Self-report Measures Influencing Children's Reported Attachment to Their Dog.
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DOI：
10.1080/08927936.2015.1088683
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发表时间：
2016
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影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Wynne CD
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作者：
Hall NJ;Liu J;Kertes DA;Wynne CD
尽管狗作为家庭宠物的流行和对狗行为的科学兴趣增加，但很少有研究调查影响儿童与狗关系的儿童或狗的特征。在本研究中，我们探讨了行为和自我报告的措施如何影响儿童的依恋感情，他们的狗，由列克星敦依恋宠物量表（LAPS）进行评估。我们专门测试了孩子们（N= 99;年龄：M= 10.25岁，SD= 1.31岁）报告了对狗的更强依恋，认为狗更支持（通过修改后的关系网络清单来衡量），在标准的两个物体选择测试中，或者在社交能力评估中要求更多爱抚的狗。此外，我们评估了儿童对父母的依恋安全性，以及是否负责照顾他们的狗，影响了对狗的依恋感。总的来说，由狗提供的感知支持高度预测LAPS的所有分量表。在社交能力评估过程中，狗成功地跟随孩子的指向手势和较低的爱抚率与LAPS的一般依恋子量表的较高评分相关，但与LAPS的其他子量表无关。照顾狗并不能预测孩子对狗的依恋，但可以预测狗在社交任务中的行为。如果孩子照顾狗，狗更有可能在指向任务中取得成功，更有可能被抚摸。这些结果表明，一个二元关系中，儿童的照顾狗与狗的行为的行为任务，这反过来又与儿童的依恋的感觉。这一二元体的影响方向和性质将是未来研究的一个富有成果的领域。
Despite the prevalence of dogs as family pets and increased scientific interest in canine behavior, few studies have investigated characteristics of the child or dog that influence the child-dog relationship. In the present study, we explored how behavioral and self-report measures influence a child’s reported feelings of attachment to their dog, as assessed by the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale (LAPS). We tested specifically whether children (N= 99; Age: M= 10.25 years, SD= 1.31 years) reported stronger attachment to dogs that were perceived as being more supportive (measured by a modified version of the Network of Relationships Inventory), to dogs that are more successful in following the child’s pointing gesture in a standard two-object choice test, or to dogs that solicited more petting in a sociability assessment. In addition, we assessed whether children’s attachment security to their parent, and whether being responsible for the care of their dog, influenced reported feelings of attachment to the dog. Overall, perceived support provided by the dog was highly predictive of all subscales of the LAPS. The dog’s success in following the child’s pointing gesture and lower rates of petting during the sociability assessment were associated with higher ratings on the general attachment subscale of the LAPS, but not of other subscales of the LAPS. Caring for the dog did not predict the child’s reported attachment to dog, but did predict the dog’s behavior on the point following task and petting during the sociability task. If the child cared for the dog, the dog was more likely to be successful on the pointing task and more likely to be petted. These results indicate a dyadic relationship in which the child’s care for the dog is associated with the dog’s behavior on the behavioral tasks, which in turn is related to the child’s reported feelings of attachment. The direction of influence and nature of this dyad will be a fruitful area for future research.
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