人与动物的互动：了解狗和猫的互动在情绪健康中的作用
Human-animal interaction: understanding the role of dog and cat interactions in emotional wellbeing.
摘要(中文译文)
伴侣动物常被认为有益于人类的情感健康，但支持这一效应及其所提出的压力缓冲机制的经验证据并不一致。本研究考察了日常生活中与伴侣动物的即时互动是否与宠物主人的正负情感相关，以及这些互动是否缓冲了压力的情感影响。我们进一步检验了这些关联在与狗互动和与猫互动之间是否存在差异。采用生态瞬时评估（EMA），188名狗和猫的主人连续五天每天最多10次在随机时刻报告其情感、压力以及与伴侣动物的互动。多层回归分析考虑了嵌套于个体内的重复测量，包括随机截距和斜率，并控制了年龄、性别和社会情境，结果显示宠物互动与更高的正性情感和更低的负性情感相关，且不受物种影响。未发现压力缓冲效应的证据，反而在负性情感对事件相关压力的反应中出现了物种特异性模式：与猫的互动放大了而非减弱了压力与负性情感之间的关联。总体而言，研究结果支持与伴侣动物互动具有稳健的即时情感益处，但不支持压力缓冲作为这一关联的机制。这些结果强调，在考察人与动物互动的心理影响时，考虑物种和情境因素的重要性。
Abstract
Companion animals are often assumed to benefit human emotional wellbeing, yet empirical evidence for this effect and the proposed stress-buffering mechanism underlying this effect is heterogeneous. This study examined whether momentary interaction with a companion animal is associated with pet owners' positive and negative affect in daily life, and whether these interactions buffer the affective impact of stress. We further tested whether these associations differ between interacting with dogs versus cats. Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), 188 dog and cat owners reported their affect, stress, and interactions with their companion animals at random moments up to 10 times per day over five consecutive days. Multilevel regression analyses accounting for repeated measurements nested within individuals, including random intercepts and slopes, and controlling for age, gender, and social context, showed that pet interaction was associated with higher positive and lower negative affect, independent of species. No evidence for a stress-buffering effect was found, instead a species-specific pattern emerged for negative affect in response to event-related stress: interactions with cats amplified, rather than attenuated, the association between stress and negative affect. Overall, findings support robust momentary emotional benefits of interacting with companion animals, but do not support stress-buffering as the mechanism underlying this association. These results emphasize the importance of considering both species and situational context when examining the psychological impact of human-animal interaction.
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AMA
Sanne Peeters, Nele Jacobs, Karin Hediger, Jannes Eshuis, Mayke Janssens. Human-animal interaction: understanding the role of dog and cat interactions in emotional wellbeing.. Frontiers in psychology. 2026; doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1768288.
APA
Sanne Peeters, Nele Jacobs, Karin Hediger, Jannes Eshuis, Mayke Janssens (2026). Human-animal interaction: understanding the role of dog and cat interactions in emotional wellbeing.. Frontiers in psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1768288
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Sanne Peeters, Nele Jacobs, Karin Hediger, Jannes Eshuis, Mayke Janssens. Human-animal interaction: understanding the role of dog and cat interactions in emotional wellbeing.[J]. Frontiers in psychology, 2026 doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1768288.
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