"like owner, like dog": Correlation between the owner's attachment profile and the owner-dog bond

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Siniscalchi, Marcello ^a   Stipo, Carlo ^a   Quaranta, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

9 ATTACHMENT PROFILE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOG; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; NONHUMAN; OWNER DOG ATTACHMENT BOND; PET ANIMAL; PET OWNER; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SEMI PROJECTIVE TEST; ANIMAL; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT RELATION; YOUNG ADULT;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923348709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078455     Document Type: Article

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