Biomaterial Database

Comparative seriousness of abuse of children and companion animals. 2007

Richard L Dukes

Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs 80918, USA. rdukes@uccs.edu

59 undergraduates were assigned randomly to react to a vignette that depicted abuse of a small child or a puppy left in a hot car. While participants considered treatment of both the child and the puppy to be abusive, they rated treatment of the child as more abusive. A pro-animal orientation of participants was more important in perception of abusiveness than was the variable of child versus puppy. Perceptions of greater abusiveness resulted in harsher recommended punishment for the abuser. Results are interpreted within the context of social roles and human and animal rights.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D011795	Surveys and Questionnaires	Collections of data obtained from voluntary subjects. The information usually takes the form of answers to questions, or suggestions.	Community Survey,Nonrespondent,Questionnaire,Questionnaires,Respondent,Survey,Survey Method,Survey Methods,Surveys,Baseline Survey,Community Surveys,Methodology, Survey,Nonrespondents,Questionnaire Design,Randomized Response Technique,Repeated Rounds of Survey,Respondents,Survey Methodology,Baseline Surveys,Design, Questionnaire,Designs, Questionnaire,Methods, Survey,Questionnaire Designs,Questionnaires and Surveys,Randomized Response Techniques,Response Technique, Randomized,Response Techniques, Randomized,Survey, Baseline,Survey, Community,Surveys, Baseline,Surveys, Community,Techniques, Randomized Response
D001841	Human-Animal Bond	The emotional attachment of individuals to animals.	Animal-Human Bonding,Bonding, Human-Pet,Human-Animal Bonding,Human-Pet Bonding,Pet-Human Bonding,Animal Human Bonding,Animal-Human Bondings,Bond, Human-Animal,Bonding, Animal-Human,Bonding, Human Pet,Bonding, Human-Animal,Bonding, Pet-Human,Bondings, Animal-Human,Bondings, Human-Pet,Bonds, Human-Animal,Human Animal Bond,Human Animal Bonding,Human Pet Bonding,Human-Animal Bondings,Human-Animal Bonds,Human-Pet Bondings
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D002649	Child Abuse	Abuse of children in a family, institutional, or other setting. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994)	Abuse Experiences, Childhood,Child Neglect,Child Neglect Experiences,Child Neglect, Physical,Childhood Abuse Experiences,Childhood Neglect Experiences,Neglect Experience, Childhood,Neglect Experiences, Childhood,Physical Neglect, Childhood,Child Maltreatment,Child Mistreatment,Abuse Experience, Childhood,Abuse, Child,Child Neglect Experience,Childhood Abuse Experience,Childhood Neglect Experience,Childhood Physical Neglect,Childhood Physical Neglects,Experience, Child Neglect,Experience, Childhood Abuse,Experience, Childhood Neglect,Maltreatment, Child,Mistreatment, Child,Neglect Experience, Child,Neglect, Child,Neglect, Childhood Physical,Neglect, Physical Child,Physical Child Neglect,Physical Child Neglects
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000818	Animals	Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.	Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D001290	Attitude	An enduring, learned predisposition to behave in a consistent way toward a given class of objects, or a persistent mental and/or neural state of readiness to react to a certain class of objects, not as they are but as they are conceived to be.	Sentiment,Attitudes,Opinions,Opinion,Sentiments