Romantic Partners and Four-Legged Friends: An Extension of Attachment Theory to Relationships with Pets

By Lisa Beck, Elizabeth A. Madresh. 2008

236 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Genetics, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1b352893096ef570d407c878082a0dad1df1c0d3

Citations in the corpus

• Using Attachment Theory and Social Support Theory to Examine and Measure Pets as Sources of Social Support and Attachment Figures (2017, unknown): “…are human relationship theories commonly used when exploring human–companion animal relationships and the socio-emotional benefits of human–animal interactions (Antonacopoulos & Pychyl, 2010; Archer & Ireland, 2011; Beck & Madresh, 2008; Beetz et al., 2012; Zilcha-Mano, Mikulincer, & Shaver, 2011).”
• Pets in danger: exploring the link between domestic violence and animal abuse (2017, unknown): “Subtheme 2 ( Companion Animals Providing Emotional Support for Victims and Children ) supports prior research which has found that pets provide emotional support for adult DV victims and children (Beck & Madresh, 2008; McDonald et al., 2015).”