Dog and owner demographic characteristics and dog personality trait associations

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 392-401

  Kubinyi, Eniko ^a   Turcsán, Borbála ^a   Miklósi, Ádám ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Demography; Dog; Owner; Personality; Regression tree

Indexed keywords

CANID; DEMOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRAINING;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DOG; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAINING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; CASTRATION; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERSONALITY; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 66349124813     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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