Pet humanization and pet owner grief
Researchers evaluated the mourning process in people who had recently lost a dog. The research model was based on a grid of five different questionnaires: the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire, the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale, the Animal-Human Continuity Scale, the Positivity Scale, and the Testoni Death Representation Scale.
A sample of 369 Italian dog owners, with a median age of 42, responded to the questionnaire.
The results support the negative view of life after the death of a pet and people's tendency to humanize their pet, since dog owners perceived animals no differently from humans in terms of emotions, needs and legal rights.
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