Potential Psychosocial Explanations for the Impact of Pet Ownership on Human Well-Being: Evaluating and Expanding Current Hypotheses
Abstract There is a set of hypotheses commonly used in the literature to explain how pets affect human well-being (e.g., pets as social catalysts). Many studies are reported as giving results consistent with one or more of these, but they may not appear to be sufficient to explain the impacts of sev...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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CABI
2023-02-01
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| Series: | Human-Animal Interactions |
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| Online Access: | http://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/hai.2023.0008 |