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We Are Family: Viewing Pets as Family Members Improves Wellbeing
Anthrozoös ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2019-06-28 , DOI: 10.1080/08927936.2019.1621516
Allen R. McConnell 1 , E. Paige Lloyd 2 , Brandon T. Humphrey 1
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ABSTRACT The current work investigated how viewing one’s pet as a family member improves wellbeing. We hypothesized that including pets in a key social ingroup (i.e., family) would increase ascriptions of socially supportive traits to these animals, enhancing their perceived ability to provide social support to owners, which in turn promotes owner wellbeing. Study 1 used a correlational design and showed positive relations between viewing one’s companion animal as a family member, greater perceptions of socially supportive traits, and better wellbeing as indexed by several measures of mental and physical health. Study 2 experimentally manipulated the extent to which participants viewed their pets as family members and found that inducing people to view companion animals as family members improved wellbeing. This study also provided evidence for the mediating role of socially supportive anthropomorphism, and it ruled out a mood-based alternative account. Pets can play an important role in providing social support that can improve people’s mental and physical health, and the processes underlying how animals can be included in people’s most important ingroup shed light on the psychology underlying how group memberships affect perceptions of humanity.

中文翻译:

我们是一家人:将宠物视为家庭成员可改善幸福感

摘要 当前的工作调查了将宠物视为家庭成员如何改善幸福感。我们假设将宠物包括在关键的社会群体(即家庭)中会增加对这些动物的社会支持特征的归属,增强它们向主人提供社会支持的感知能力,这反过来又促进了主人的幸福感。研究 1 使用了相关性设计,并显示出将伴侣动物视为家庭成员、对社会支持特征的更多看法以及通过多种心理和身体健康指标衡量的更好的幸福感之间存在正相关关系。研究 2 通过实验操纵参与者将宠物视为家庭成员的程度,并发现诱导人们将伴侣动物视为家庭成员可以改善幸福感。这项研究还为社会支持拟人论的中介作用提供了证据,并排除了基于情绪的替代解释。宠物可以在提供社会支持方面发挥重要作用,从而改善人们的身心健康,而动物如何被纳入人们最重要的内群体的过程揭示了群体成员资格如何影响人类认知的心理。
更新日期:2019-06-28
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