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• TITLE: Examining Pet Attitude in Relationship to Loneliness and Parenthood Motivation in Pet-Owning Adults

  AUTHORS: Cheryl A. Krause-Parello, Yvonne Wesley, Minnie Campbell

  KEYWORDS: Pet Attitude; Loneliness; Pets; Parenthood

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.6 No.7, March 12, 2014

  ABSTRACT: Pets’ growing role in family dynamics creates questions about resources pets may provide in parenthood motivation. Pet ownership has been suggested in the literature as an antecedent to parenthood in terms of developing skills needed to rear offspring, nurturance, and responsibility. Participants (N = 118) who were pet owners, completed an online survey that recorded demographics and consisted of loneliness, pet attitude, and parenthood motivation scales. Results supported that loneliness and pet attitude were positively related to parenthood motivation (all p’s