Pet Ownership and Children’s Emotional Expression: Propensity Score-Matched Analysis of Longitudinal Data from Japan
Pet Ownership and Children’s Emotional Expression: Propensity Score-Matched Analysis of Longitudinal Data from Japan
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养宠物和儿童的情绪表达：日本纵向数据的倾向得分匹配分析
DOI：
10.3390/ijerph16050758
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
I. Kawachi
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文献类型：
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作者：
Rikako Sato;T. Fujiwara;S. Kino;N. Nawa;I. Kawachi
随着许多儿童和青少年报告与他们的宠物建立了牢固的情感纽带，养宠物对儿童/青少年健康--特别是对他们的情感发展--的影响引起了越来越多的科学兴趣。我们使用日本纵向队列数据集(n=31,453)中的倾向分数匹配来检验幼儿时期(3.5岁)的宠物饲养与儿童后期(5.5岁)情绪表达不良之间的关联。根据每个孩子观察到的特征的综合清单，包括性别、家庭收入、父母教育程度、母亲的就业状况、居住环境、兄弟姐妹数量和生活安排，通过Logistic模型计算出养宠物倾向分数。配对样本的对数二项回归分析表明，与不养宠物的儿童相比，在幼儿时期养宠物的儿童在童年后期情绪表达不良的可能性低6%(患病率=0.94，95%可信区间=0.90-0.99)。这表明，养宠物可能会给孩子提供控制情绪的机会，并降低情绪表达不良的患病率。蹒跚学步的时候养宠物可能有助于表达能力的发展。
With many children and young adolescents reporting strong emotional bonds with their pets, the impact of pet ownership on child/adolescent health—especially on their emotional development—has garnered increasing scientific interest. We examined the association between pet ownership in toddlerhood (age 3.5 years) and poor emotional expression in later childhood (age 5.5 years) using propensity score matching within a longitudinal cohort dataset from Japan (n = 31,453). A propensity score for pet ownership was calculated by logistic models based on a comprehensive list of each child’s observed characteristics, including sex, household income, parental education, mother’s employment status, residential environment, number of siblings, and living arrangement. Log-binomial regression analyses using matched samples revealed that children who owned pets during the toddler years were 6% less likely to have a poor emotional expression in later childhood (prevalence ratio = 0.94, 95% confidence interval = 0.90–0.99) compared to those without pets. This suggests that owning pets may provide children with opportunities to control their emotions, and lead to a lower prevalence of poor emotional expression. Pet ownership in toddlerhood may contribute to the development of expression.
影响因子：
6.8
作者：
Kanske P;Schönfelder S;Forneck J;Wessa M
通讯作者：
Wessa M
孩子是男人的父亲：从童年到成年的人格连续性。
影响因子：
7.6
作者：
Caspi,A
通讯作者：
Caspi,A