Marketing Department, University of Liverpool Management School, Liverpool, UK.
Sociol Health Illn. 2024 Nov;46(8):1923-1941. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13820. Epub 2024 Jul 28.
This paper investigates the social support provided by domestic animals to humans during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study comprises interviews with 39 British and American pet owners during March 2021, the point at which the UK had recently emerged from the third national lockdown and US states were under various restrictions. A thematic network approach to data analysis revealed four global themes, illustrating how pets provided buffers to the stress of the pandemic, facilitated ontological security by maintaining a sense of routine and purpose, offered myriad types of emotional support and enhanced and enabled wider social support. Taken together, these results reinforce and extend knowledge pertaining to the importance of companion animals for social support.
本研究调查了 COVID-19 大流行期间家养动物为人类提供的社会支持。该研究包括在 2021 年 3 月对 39 名英、美宠物主人进行的访谈，此时英国刚刚走出第三次全国封锁，美国各州仍处于各种限制之下。对数据分析的主题网络方法揭示了四个全球主题，说明了宠物如何为大流行的压力提供缓冲，通过维持常规感和目的感来促进本体论安全，提供多种类型的情感支持，并增强和促进更广泛的社会支持。总的来说，这些结果加强和扩展了有关伴侣动物对社会支持重要性的知识。
