Men and Their Dogs

Contextual Issues.- A brief history of man's best friend in animal studies.- Understanding the contextual nature of man's best friend.- The link between violence to humans and animals.- Race and ethnicity as a contextual factor influencing perception of the human-animal bond.- Attachment and Well-Being.- Heuristic nature of Bowlby's attachment theory as a means to conceptualize the human-animal bond.- Pets Forever: an innovative service learning course helping community pet owners.- Play and the human-animal bond as a mediator of stress among men with gender role conflict.- Canine companions as self-objects: the role of animal companions in men's lives.- Overview of research on the left gaze bias found in dogs: how humans and animals recognize and respond to the emotional state of another.- Attachment between humans and dogs in Japanese culture.- Attachment to animal companions among a veteran population.- Attachment to animal companions and normative male alexithymia.- Grief, Loss,and the Continued Bond.- Men's grieving styles: the importance of disenfranchised grief and dissonant grief.- Overview of the continuing bond with animal companions: implications for men and their dogs.- Do men really grieve less for animal companions? The influence of gender role conflict and dissonant grief in understanding men's attachment and loss of an animal companion.

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• Psicologia da saude
• Os estudos de gênero, grupos de gênero

attachment theory and human-animal bond;dog as man's best friend;human-animal bond;male gender roles;man's relationship with dog;men's relationships with animal companions