A Critical Review of Research on the Human/Companion Animal Relationship: 1988 to 1993

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)

Beth E. Barba, Professor (Creator)

Institution

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )

Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/

Abstract: Fifty-two research reports from the human/companion animal relationship literature published from 1988 to 1993 were reviewed using a shortened farm of the Selby Research, Assessment Form II (RAF) Descriptive data were analyzed for characteristics such as attributes of authors, grant funding, purposes, quality of literature reviews and conceptual frameworks, settings and sampling, research designs, and implications for future research. Qualitative data describing results of studies were summarized. Over half of the studies were published in Anthrozoös and were not grant funded. These were primarily nonexperimental studies using nonprobability, nongeneralizable samples. Social support was the most frequently cited framework. Understudied populations were rural groups, the middle aged, adolescents, and institutionalized elders. Few errors were committed in describing instruments or reporting analyses of data.

A Critical Review of Research on the Human/Companion Animal Relationship: 1988 to 1993
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Barba, B. E. (1995). A critical review of research on human/companion animal relationships: 1988 through 1993. Anthrozoös, 8(l), 9-20.

Language: English

Date: 1995

Keywords

Literature review, Research, Human-animal relationships, Social support

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