Parental behavior, human-animal interaction, and adolescent development

父母行为、人与动物互动和青少年发展

• 批准号: 10213794
• 负责人: Megan Kiely Mueller
• 金额: $ 7.9万
• 依托单位: TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-13 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10213794
• 关键词: Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; Adolescent Development; Animals; Attention; Attitude; Behavior; Canis familiaris; Caring; Cessation of life; Child; Child Development; Child Health; Communication; Communities; Compassion; Complex; Data; Data Analyses; Development; Divorce; Environment; Family; Felis catus; Fostering; Goals; Habits; Health; Home; Human; Individual; Interview; Knowledge; Life; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Longitudinal Surveys; Mental Depression; Methods; Outcome; Ownership; Parents; Pattern; Physical activity; Play; Process; Psyche structure; Quality of life; Reporting; Research; Risk; Role; Schools; Sleep; Social support; Socialization; Source; Students; System; Technology; Time; Well in self; Youth; adolescent health; aged; behavioral outcome; companion animal; follow-up; innovation; longitudinal design; outcome prediction; parental influence; pet animal; recruit; resilience; social anxiety; social media; substance use

Project Summary Pets are recognized as an important facet of the family system, yet research on adolescent–pet relationships has been limited in several key ways. Youth–pet relationship quality is a potentially critical factor in predicting outcomes of youth human-animal interaction but the nuances of how adolescent–pet relationship quality may influence the effects of pet ownership have not been fully explored. In particular, there is a significant need for longitudinal designs to unravel if and how quality of relationship remains stable, and how any change patterns are linked to youth outcomes. Additionally, human–animal interactions exist as part of complex family systems, but the majority of youth human-animal interaction (HAI) research focuses on assessing individual dyadic relationships. There is relatively little known about how parents may directly or indirectly socialize the pet into the family system as an intentional (or unintentional) way of creating a positive environment for their children. Currently, little data exist on how parents view adolescent–pet interactions and the potential benefits or risks as associated with these relationships. Exploring parental attitudes and behaviors is an important facet of understanding the processes involved in youth HAI. The specific aims of this project are 1) To longitudinally assess if youth–pet relationship quality is predictive of healthy adolescent behaviors, and 2) to assess how parents influence the ways in which pets are integrated into the family system. To achieve these aims, we will utilize data from a larger ongoing longitudinal survey (1R15HD094281-01) of students aged 11-15 (n=773) and their parents (n=228), and will recruit a subset of parents/guardians to participate in a follow-up exploratory interview study (n=30) about socialization processes focused on how family pets can contribute to the healthy development of early adolescents. The results from this proposed study will reduce gaps in empirical knowledge by focusing research attention on the quality and consistency of human-animal interactions between adolescents and their pets using a robust longitudinal approach. In addition, this study will provide nuanced mixed-methods data that will have significant implications for understanding the diverse ways in which parents have socialized the adolescent-pet relationship.

项目摘要 宠物被认为是家庭系统的一个重要方面，但关于青少年与宠物关系的研究一直 在几个关键方面受到限制。青少年与宠物的关系质量是预测青少年结果的潜在关键因素 人与动物的互动，但青少年与宠物的关系质量如何影响宠物效果的细微差别 所有权尚未得到充分探索。特别是，对于纵向设计来说，很有必要解开如果和 关系质量如何保持稳定，以及任何变化模式如何与青年结果联系在一起。另外， 人与动物的互动作为复杂的家庭系统的一部分存在，但大多数年轻人的人与动物互动 (HAI)研究侧重于评估个体的二元关系。关于父母是如何 可以直接或间接地将宠物社会化到家庭系统中，作为一种有意(或无意)的方式来创造一种 为孩子营造积极的环境。目前，关于父母如何看待青少年与宠物的互动以及 与这些关系相关的潜在利益或风险。探索父母的态度和行为是一个重要的 了解青年HAI所涉及的过程的方面。 这个项目的具体目标是：1)纵向评估青少年与宠物的关系质量是否预示着健康 2)评估父母如何影响宠物融入家庭系统的方式。 为了实现这些目标，我们将利用对学生进行的更大规模的持续纵向调查(1R15HD094281-01)的数据 11-15岁(n=773)及其父母(n=228)，并将招募一部分父母/监护人参加后续行动 关于社会化过程的探索性访谈研究(n=30)，重点是家庭宠物如何为健康做出贡献 早期青少年的发展。 这项拟议研究的结果将通过将研究注意力集中在以下方面来缩小经验知识的差距 青少年和宠物之间人-动物互动的质量和一致性使用稳健的纵向 接近。此外，这项研究将提供细微差别的混合方法数据，这将对以下方面产生重大影响 理解父母将青少年与宠物的关系社会化的不同方式。

项目成果

Companion Animal Relationships and Adolescent Loneliness during COVID-19.

• DOI: 10.3390/ani11030885
• 发表时间: 2021-03-19
• 期刊: Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
• 作者: Mueller MK;Richer AM;Callina KS;Charmaraman L
• 通讯作者: Charmaraman L

From Regulating Emotions to Less Lonely Screen Time: Parents' Qualitative Perspectives of the Benefits and Challenges of Adolescent Pet Companionship.

• DOI: 10.3390/bs12050143
• 发表时间: 2022-05-13
• 期刊: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
• 影响因子: 2.6
• 作者: Charmaraman, Linda;Cobas, Stephanie;Weed, Jules;Gu, Quan;Kiel, Elizabeth;Chin, Holly;Gramajo, Alyssa;Mueller, Megan K.
• 通讯作者: Mueller, Megan K.

Associations between Pet Care Responsibility, Companion Animal Interactions, and Family Relationships during COVID-19.

• DOI: 10.3390/ani12233274
• 发表时间: 2022-11-24
• 期刊: ANIMALS
• 影响因子: 3
• 作者: Charmaraman, Linda;Kiel, Elizabeth;Richer, Amanda M. M.;Gramajo, Alyssa;Mueller, Megan K. K.
• 通讯作者: Mueller, Megan K. K.