Socio-emotional correlates of a schooldog-teacher-team in the classroom
A growing number of teachers in Europe regularly take their dogs with them into the classroom. Limited research points at positive socio-emotional effects of this practice. In this study the effects of a schooldog-teacher-team on socioemotional experiences in school, depression and emotion regulatio...
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| description | A growing number of teachers in Europe regularly take their dogs with them into the classroom. Limited research points at positive socio-emotional effects of this practice. In this study the effects of a schooldog-teacher-team on socioemotional experiences in school, depression and emotion regulation strategies were investigated in a classroom of third-graders (male n=12, female n=13), which had a schooldog present for one day per week in comparison with a control class (male n=11, female n=10). In contrast to the control class, the dog-class students reported a stronger improvement with regard to positive attitude towards school (repeated measures ANOVA; F=10.769, df=1, p=.002) and positive emotions related to learning (F=4.479, df=1, p=.042) over the course of the year. Since a prerequisite of all kinds of effective learning is a positive attitude and mood towards school and learning, the presence of a schooldog-teacher team thus has the potential to support learning. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-23b8c34d0c3d46a891c3ae1970ad0f802022-12-22T02:33:37ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782013-11-01410.3389/fpsyg.2013.0088664995Socio-emotional correlates of a schooldog-teacher-team in the classroomAndrea eBeetz0Andrea eBeetz1University of Erlangen-NurembergUniversity of ViennaA growing number of teachers in Europe regularly take their dogs with them into the classroom. Limited research points at positive socio-emotional effects of this practice. In this study the effects of a schooldog-teacher-team on socioemotional experiences in school, depression and emotion regulation strategies were investigated in a classroom of third-graders (male n=12, female n=13), which had a schooldog present for one day per week in comparison with a control class (male n=11, female n=10). In contrast to the control class, the dog-class students reported a stronger improvement with regard to positive attitude towards school (repeated measures ANOVA; F=10.769, df=1, p=.002) and positive emotions related to learning (F=4.479, df=1, p=.042) over the course of the year. Since a prerequisite of all kinds of effective learning is a positive attitude and mood towards school and learning, the presence of a schooldog-teacher team thus has the potential to support learning.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00886/fulldogEmotion RegulationChildrenSchoolanimal-assisted educationclassroom |
| spellingShingle | Andrea eBeetz Andrea eBeetz Socio-emotional correlates of a schooldog-teacher-team in the classroom Frontiers in Psychology dog Emotion Regulation Children School animal-assisted education classroom |
| title | Socio-emotional correlates of a schooldog-teacher-team in the classroom |
| title_full | Socio-emotional correlates of a schooldog-teacher-team in the classroom |
| title_fullStr | Socio-emotional correlates of a schooldog-teacher-team in the classroom |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socio-emotional correlates of a schooldog-teacher-team in the classroom |
| title_short | Socio-emotional correlates of a schooldog-teacher-team in the classroom |
| title_sort | socio emotional correlates of a schooldog teacher team in the classroom |
| topic | dog Emotion Regulation Children School animal-assisted education classroom |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00886/full |
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