From Regulating Emotions to Less Lonely Screen Time: Parents' Qualitative Perspectives of the Benefits and Challenges of Adolescent Pet Companionship.
From Regulating Emotions to Less Lonely Screen Time: Parents' Qualitative Perspectives of the Benefits and Challenges of Adolescent Pet Companionship.
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10.3390/bs12050143
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发表时间：
2022-05-13
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Mueller, Megan K.
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作者：
Charmaraman, Linda;Cobas, Stephanie;Weed, Jules;Gu, Quan;Kiel, Elizabeth;Chin, Holly;Gramajo, Alyssa;Mueller, Megan K.
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青春期是探索人与宠物关系的主要发展时期，尤其是考虑到青少年往往不太依赖家人，而是更多地依赖同伴和宠物等其他依恋对象。然而，大多数关于宠物陪伴的研究都是在成年人和幼儿中进行的。此外，在有青少年的家庭中养宠物的生活经历还没有得到充分的探索，尤其是从父母的角度来看。这项对美国东北部31位父母/监护人的定性访谈研究探讨了养宠物对青少年健康的好处和挑战，以及青少年如何影响他们宠物的健康。我们对宠物的感知好处的三个主要主题包括社交（例如，减少焦虑），身体（例如，屏幕陪伴）和情感（例如，调节愤怒，孤独等困难情绪）。青少年健康面临的挑战包括社会主题，如因责任分担不均而导致的家庭紧张关系，身体主题，如有问题的动物行为，以及与宠物去世有关的情感主题。我们提供了一种发展系统的方法来理解青少年家庭中的宠物，并指出了未来发展家庭干预措施的方向，以改善青少年时期儿童和宠物养育的需求。
Adolescence is a prime developmental period to explore human–pet relationships, particularly given that teens are often relying less on their families, and more on other attachment figures such as peers and pets. However, most research on pet companionship is conducted with adults and young children. Moreover, lived experiences around having pets in households with adolescents are underexplored, particularly from parents’ perspectives. This qualitative interview study of 31 parents/guardians in the Northeast U.S. explored perceptions of the benefits and challenges of having pets for their adolescent’s well-being as well as how adolescents affected their pet’s well-being. Our three main themes for perceived benefits of pets included social (e.g., reducing anxiety), physical (e.g., screen time companionship), and emotional (e.g., regulation of difficult emotions such as anger, loneliness). Challenges to adolescent well-being included such social topics as family tension around unevenly shared responsibilities, physical themes such as problematic animal behaviors, and emotional themes related to grieving the passing of pets. We offer a developmental systems approach to understanding pets within adolescent families, noting future directions for developing family interventions to improve pet–adolescent interactions given the demands of child and pet upbringing during adolescence.
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DOI：
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发表时间：
2021-01-19
期刊：
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
影响因子：
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作者：
Holland KE;Owczarczak-Garstecka SC;Anderson KL;Casey RA;Christley RM;Harris L;McMillan KM;Mead R;Murray JK;Samet L;Upjohn MM
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发表时间：
2021-03-10
期刊：
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
影响因子：
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作者：
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通讯作者：
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影响因子：
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作者：
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