Can Pets Replace Children? The Interaction Effect of Pet Attachment and Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Fertility Intention

Guo, Zhen; Ren, Xiaoxing; Zhao, Jinzhe; Jiao, Liying; Xu, Yan

doi:10.3390/ijerph18168610

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“…It may be explained using the psychological‐kin idea, which is defined as feeling and behaving toward others as family, irrespective of actual genetic relatedness (Bailey, 1988). Pet attachment was negatively associated with fertility intention when individuals had a high level of subjective socioeconomic status (Guo et al, 2021); this is consistent with our findings that pet owners show more agreement about people viewing their pets as kids or siblings and consider their pets as equivalent to family or friends than just a pet.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Moral decision‐making in pettism: The influence of animal type, pet ownership status, and social distance

LUO

et al. 2022

PsyCh Journal

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Speciesism prioritizes humans over animals and pets. Nevertheless, pet owners have a strong attachment bond with their pets, which makes their hierarchical view of pets less clear. Aiming to examine this issue, we present a dilemma involving animals and humans that allowed us to investigate whether animal type, social distance, and pet ownership status can affect moral decision-making related to pets. Save-willingness results showed that in the moral dilemmas of pets versus livestock versus wild animals (Studies 1a and 2a) and their own pets versus strangers (Studies 1b and 2b), pet owners prioritize pets whereas non-owners prioritize pets (Studies 1a and 2a) and strangers (Studies 1b and 2b). Pet owners prefer to save pets more than do non-owners (Study 1a), and this effect was only observed in females (Study 2a). Save-decision results showed that in the moral dilemmas of pets versus livestock versus wild animals (Study 2a), pet owners prioritize pets whereas in the dilemmas of pets versus strangers (Study 2b), pet owners prioritize strangers. The same result was found in non-owners. Pet owners prefer more than do non-owners to save pets (Study 2). Overall, the separation of save-willingness and save-decision results revealed that pet owners show special speciesism (i.e., pettism).

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Moral decision‐making in pettism: The influence of animal type, pet ownership status, and social distance

LUO

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PsyCh Journal

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“…Rural individuals, strongly influenced by traditional concepts of fertility, may exhibit higher fertility intentions compared to urban residents (55). Considering that fertility intention is a psychological variable, subjective socioeconomic status, which measures individuals' subjective feelings regarding their status and likely influences fertility desires, was used as a control variable (56).…”

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The mediating role of trust in government in intergenerational transmission of fertility intentions

Zheng,

Wang,

Xie

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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China's one-child policy was in effect from 1982 to 2015. However, the literature examining the association between people's trust in local government and intergenerational transmission of fertility intentions is scarce. To fill this gap, we investigated the impact of individuals' sibship size on their ideal number of children, the mediating effect of their trust in local government on the issue of fertility between two successive generations, and the moderating effect of education level on sibship size related to trust in local governments. Based on the 2019 Chinese Social Survey data, 2,340 respondents aged 18–35 participated in the analysis. The results showed that (i) individuals' number of siblings significantly positively predicted their ideal number of children; (ii) individuals' number of siblings significantly negatively predicted their trust in the local government, which in turn significantly negatively influenced fertility intentions; (iii) the mediating mechanism was significant in residents with higher levels of education, but not in people with lower degrees of education. Fertility-boosting incentives can prioritize couples who are the only child in their family. It is necessary for local governments to improve their credibility and strengthen their pregnancy-related communication with groups with higher levels of education.

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“…The other human needs help to replace this function easily. Even more, the intense strength of pet attachment can reduce people's tendency to childbearing and cause the increasing age of birthing their first child [3].…”

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The Pet Attachment Affects The Person's Mental Condition

Feng

2024

TMBLS

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People are more willing to have pets in current society. The interaction with pets brings pet attachment to owners. Studies try to find the benefits of the pet; the pet attachment is the measurable variable to evaluate the benefits and function of the pet. The essay discusses the emotional support of pets by dividing it into positive and negative emotional conditions. Each condition introduces two studies to develop the benefits of pets. In the positive emotion condition, the studies show that different kinds of companion animals can increase the owners' well-being. The study also figures out that the interaction with and presence of pets contribute to the positive mood of the owners. In negative emotion, two studies studied two periods, which bring long-lasting stress and negatively impact people's mental health. The result shows that companion animals can display the function of buffering negative impacts and promoting positive moods. The studies mainly take surveys to measure the data from the participants. Studies conclude that pet attachment to companion animals has emotional support and positively impacts mental health in daily life.

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Can Pets Replace Children? The Interaction Effect of Pet Attachment and Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Fertility Intention

Cited by 13 publications

References 41 publications

Moral decision‐making in pettism: The influence of animal type, pet ownership status, and social distance

Moral decision‐making in pettism: The influence of animal type, pet ownership status, and social distance

The mediating role of trust in government in intergenerational transmission of fertility intentions

The Pet Attachment Affects The Person's Mental Condition

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