One of the family? Measuring young adolescents' relationships with pets and siblings
One of the family? Measuring young adolescents' relationships with pets and siblings
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DOI：
10.1016/j.appdev.2017.01.003
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发表时间：
2017-03-01
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
Hughes, Claire
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作者：
Cassels, Matthew T.;White, Naomi;Hughes, Claire
宠物很常见，但它们对儿童和青少年的重要性却很少受到经验主义的关注。部分原因是缺乏衡量儿童与宠物关系的工具。本研究的第一个目的（涉及77个12岁的孩子）是评估宠物适应的一个既定的衡量人际关系质量，关系网络清单（NRI）。接下来，我们应用NRI来研究宠物关系质量如何随宠物类型和参与者的性别而变化，并比较参与者与宠物和兄弟姐妹的关系。结果表明，女孩比男孩报告更多的披露，陪伴和冲突与他们的宠物，而狗主人报告更大的满意度和陪伴他们的宠物比其他宠物的主人。强调早期青少年宠物关系的重要性，参与者获得更多的满意度，并与他们的宠物比与他们的兄弟姐妹更少发生冲突。(C)2017爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
Pets are common but their importance to children and early adolescents has received scant empirical attention. This is partly due to a lack of tools for measuring child-pet relationships. The first aim of the present study (involving 77 12-year-olds) was to evaluate a pet adaptation of an established measure of human relationship quality, the Network of Relationships Inventory (NRI). Next, we applied the NRI to examine how pet relationship quality varies with pet type and participant's gender, and to compare participants' relationships with pets and with siblings. Results showed that girls reported more disclosure, companionship, and conflict with their pet than did boys, while dog owners reported greater satisfaction and companionship with their pet than did owners of other pets. Highlighting the importance of early adolescents' pet relationships, participants derived more satisfaction and engaged in less conflict with their pets than with their siblings. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.