Development and Application of the Owner-Bird Relationship Scale (OBRS) to Assess the Relation of Humans to Their Pet Birds.

anthropomorphism companion bird human-animal relationship pet birds scale social support (MeSH term)

Journal

Frontiers in veterinary science
ISSN: 2297-1769
Titre abrégé: Front Vet Sci
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101666658

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2020
Historique:
received: 22 06 2020
accepted: 17 11 2020
entrez: 28 12 2020
pubmed: 29 12 2020
medline: 29 12 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Only a few birds besides domestic pigeons and poultry can be described as domesticated. Therefore, keeping a pet bird can be challenging, and the human-avian relationship will have a major influence on the quality of this cohabitation. Studies that focus on characterizing the owner-bird relationship generally use adapted cat/dog scales which may not identify its specific features. Following a sociological approach, a concept of human-animal relationship was developed leading to three types of human-animal relationship (impersonal, personal, and close personal). This concept was used to develop a 21-item owner-bird-relationship scale (OBRS). This scale was applied to measure the relationship between pet bird owners (or keepers) (

Identifiants

pubmed: 33363230
doi: 10.3389/fvets.2020.575221
pmc: PMC7758459
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

575221

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Burmeister, Drasch, Rinder, Prechsl, Peschel, Korbel and Saam.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Anne-Kathrin Burmeister (AK)

Center for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Clinic for Birds, Small Mammals, Reptiles and Ornamental Fish, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany.

Katrin Drasch (K)

Institute of Sociology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.

Monika Rinder (M)

Center for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Clinic for Birds, Small Mammals, Reptiles and Ornamental Fish, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany.

Sebastian Prechsl (S)

Institute of Sociology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.

Andrea Peschel (A)

Center for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Clinic for Birds, Small Mammals, Reptiles and Ornamental Fish, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany.

Rüdiger Korbel (R)

Center for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Clinic for Birds, Small Mammals, Reptiles and Ornamental Fish, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany.

Nicole J Saam (NJ)

Institute of Sociology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.

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