The Impact of Household Pets on Children's Daily Lives: Differences in Parent-Child Conversations and Implications for Children's Emotional Development

Living with a pet is related to a host of socioemotional health benefits for children, yet few studies have examined the mechanisms that drive the relations between pet ownership and positive socioemotional outcomes. The current study examined one of the ways that pets may change the environment thr...

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Published in:Developmental psychology 2023-11, Vol.59 (11), p.2148-2161
Main Authors: Reider, Lori B., Kim, Emily, Mahaffey, Elise, LoBue, Vanessa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Alaska Natives
American Indians
Animals
Black white differences
Black white relations
Child
Child Development
Child, Preschool
Childhood
Childhood Development
Children
Children & youth
Childrens health
Conversation
Dogs
Emotional Development
Emotions
Empathy
Family Environment
Fathers
Female
Gender differences
Hispanic Americans
Households
Human
Humans
Indigenous peoples
Interpersonal Communication
Language Usage
Male
Mental health
Mental states
Mothers - psychology
Official languages
Ownership
Pacific Islander people
Parent Child Relations
Parent Child Relationship
Parents
Parents & parenting
Parents - psychology
Pets
Prosocial Behavior
Race
United States
Young Children
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