Animal Welfare within the Human-Dog Dyad: The Relationship between Human Mental Health and Pet Dog Problem Behaviours.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Pet ownership interventions reduce owner stress and increase overall quality of life, and as such, pet ownership is sometimes considered as a method of treatment. However, to date research on the human-animal bond and pet ownership has primarily focused on the benefits for the human, and has paid little attention to welfare of the animal. From a caregiver perspective, the owner-pet dyad is analogous to the parent-child dyad. Studies on the parent-child dyad show that children are more likely to display stress-related behaviours if raised by parents who suffer from depression or anxiety, possibly due to social-modeling and the impact the environment has on learned behaviours. Additionally, parental depression is associated with child neglect. The purpose of this study is to see if these correlations also exists among the owner-pet dyad. Using the Inventory of Anxiety and Depression Symptoms (IDAS) and the Canine Behavioral Assessment and Research Questionnaire (C-BARQ), we will measure university students’ level of anxiety and depression, and problem behaviours in their pet dog. Our expected findings are positive correlations between level of owner depression and anxiety, and problem behaviours, typical of stress, in the owner’s pet dog. Furthermore, we expect to find negative correlations between owner depression and owner level of pet dog care. These findings will help to better understand the human-dog dyad and assist clinicians in making informed, ethical decisions while promoting live-in-animal-assisted interventions. Discipline: Psychology Honours Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eric Legge
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".