The impact of pets
The Influence of Pet Ownership in Loneliness
The idea of owning pets becomes widely spread nowadays as pets are promoted as being beneficial to health and companionship. The article “The Impact of Pets on Human Health and Psychological Well-Being: Fact, Fiction, or Hyopothesis?” by Harold Herzog considers evidence of whether pets contribute to owners’ psychological and physical health. While mentioning “pet effect”, the author discusses the advantages of owning pets as providing owners a sense of belongings and helps with curing chronic mental disease such as autism and depression; however, as level of loneliness and happiness cannot be scientifically measure, he points out the “file drawer effect”, studies do not support on the idea of pets impacting people (Herzog 181). According to British Columbia’s SPCA, the number of adopting dogs and cats increases significantly annually. Family pets such as dogs and cats are being seen as “friends to human” and having a friend living which will decrease loneliness. As more families and bachelor start to own pets, it is to be believed that pets brighten moods and keep negative thoughts away. It is to be seen that pets getting more involved into the human’s lives, especially for the people who lives alone, elderly and childhood, the idea of pets impacting psychological and physical health become questionable. Now, here is the question, do pets really contribute to the loneliness?
Interactions with family pets such as dogs and cats show increase in social support and lower level of loneliness (Antonacopoulos 52). People who live by themselves tend to “lack securities”(40) and look for communication and interactions with others. This group of population tends to have lower social support and pessimistic. According to Anatoacopoulos’s experiment, people who live alone show higher level of loneliness compared to the ones who live with families. Although pets cannot help with problem solving in daily lives, the
The idea of owning pets becomes widely spread nowadays as pets are promoted as being beneficial to health and companionship. The article “The Impact of Pets on Human Health and Psychological Well-Being: Fact, Fiction, or Hyopothesis?” by Harold Herzog considers evidence of whether pets contribute to owners’ psychological and physical health. While mentioning “pet effect”, the author discusses the advantages of owning pets as providing owners a sense of belongings and helps with curing chronic mental disease such as autism and depression; however, as level of loneliness and happiness cannot be scientifically measure, he points out the “file drawer effect”, studies do not support on the idea of pets impacting people (Herzog 181). According to British Columbia’s SPCA, the number of adopting dogs and cats increases significantly annually. Family pets such as dogs and cats are being seen as “friends to human” and having a friend living which will decrease loneliness. As more families and bachelor start to own pets, it is to be believed that pets brighten moods and keep negative thoughts away. It is to be seen that pets getting more involved into the human’s lives, especially for the people who lives alone, elderly and childhood, the idea of pets impacting psychological and physical health become questionable. Now, here is the question, do pets really contribute to the loneliness?
Interactions with family pets such as dogs and cats show increase in social support and lower level of loneliness (Antonacopoulos 52). People who live by themselves tend to “lack securities”(40) and look for communication and interactions with others. This group of population tends to have lower social support and pessimistic. According to Anatoacopoulos’s experiment, people who live alone show higher level of loneliness compared to the ones who live with families. Although pets cannot help with problem solving in daily lives, the