Effects of a Dog-training Intervention on At-risk Youth
| Autor: | Shlomit Lahav, Halit Kantor, Orly Sarid |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Sociology and Political Science
Veterinary (miscellaneous) media_common.quotation_subject education 05 social sciences Psychological intervention Personal distress Empathy Education Anthropology Intervention (counseling) Perspective-taking Interpersonal Reactivity Index 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Animal Science and Zoology 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology Empowerment Psychology Empathic concern media_common Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Anthrozoös. 32:533-540 |
| ISSN: | 1753-0377 0892-7936 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08927936.2019.1621539 |
| Popis: | In the past few decades, interventions that involve animals have gained support among therapists, as they encourage verbal and non-verbal expressions of emotions. Our aim was to examine the impact of a dog-training intervention on the empathic skills of at-risk youth, compared with an intervention using empowerment groups. We hypothesized that participants in the dog-training group would report improved empathic abilities, compared with those in the comparison group. A prospective study was conducted, with a final sample of 55 at-risk youth: 30 in the dog-training group and 25 in the empowerment-based group (n = 25). Empathic skills were measured using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, which consists of four subscales: fantasy abilities, perspective taking, empathic concern, and personal distress. We found a significant improvement in the empathic concern subscale only among participants in the dog-training group (F(1,53) = 16.6, p < 0.01). This is discussed, along with limitations of the resear... |
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