ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办：中国科学院心理研究所
出版：科学出版社

心理科学进展 ›› 2015, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (1): 142-149.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2015.00142

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宠物与人类的关系：心理学视角的探讨

张茂杨1;彭小凡2;胡朝兵1;张兴瑜3   

  1. (1重庆师范大学应用心理学重点实验室, 重庆 401331) (2西南大学心理学部, 重庆 400715) (3重庆师范大学学生心理健康教育与咨询中心,重庆 401331)
  • 收稿日期:2013-12-02 出版日期:2015-01-15 发布日期:2015-01-15
  • 通讯作者: 胡朝兵, E-mail: 405838449@qq.com

The Nature of the Bond between Pets and Owners: A Psychological Analysis

ZHANG Maoyang1; PENG Xiaofan2; HU Chaobing1; ZHANG Xingyu3   

  1. (1 Key Applied Psychology Lab, Chongqing Normal University; Chongqing 401331, China) (2 School of Psychology, Southwest University; Chongqing 400715, China) (3 The Educational and Counselling Center of Psychological Health, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China)
  • Received:2013-12-02 Online:2015-01-15 Published:2015-01-15
  • Contact: HU Chaobing, E-mail: 405838449@qq.com

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摘要：

作为人类的忠实伙伴, 宠物为人类的身心健康带来了多种积极影响。宠物的“人格”研究显示, 宠物并非单纯的动物, 而是具有独立社交功能的伙伴。它是人际支持系统外的补充, 而非补偿。它们通过激发人类的照料行为, 为人类带来快乐和安慰。已有宠物研究尚存取样不够合理, 行为实验匮乏等问题。未来研究的样本选择应该尽量多而细, 在拓展已有实验范式的同时, 还可借鉴婴儿认知神经科学的技术, 进一步探索和验证宠物影响人类的内在机制。

关键词: 宠物, 身心健康, 宠物人格, 社交支持

Abstract:

As humans’ loyal friends, pets have a widely acknowledged positive effect on humans’ physical and mental health. The researches on pet personality have revealed that pets, rather than merely a kind of animal, were human-like companions who could interact with their owner like human friends. Pets are one part of the owners’ social support system, but they are neither compensation or competitor against human relationship. They function independently. The behavior evidence implied that the bond between pets and their owners is similar with the parental relationship, where pets elicited the parental behavior and the owners also benefit from caring the pets. This review revealed the limitation of former researches in sample selection and the lack of experimental evidence. Further researches should have more concern on the integrity of research samples, develop the behavioral experiment paradigm and introduce the neural cognition method to examine the inner mechanism by which pets affect the owners.

Key words: pet, physical and mental health, pet personality, social support