CAJ | 학술논문

作为人类的忠实伙伴，宠物为人类的身心健康带来了多种积极影响。宠物的“人格”研究显示，宠物并非单纯的动物，而是具有独立社交功能的伙伴。它是人际支持系统外的补充，而非补偿。它们通过激发人类的照料行为，为人类带来快乐和安慰。已有宠物研究尚存取样不够合理，行为实验匮乏等问题。未来研究的样本选择应该尽量多而细，在拓展已有实验范式的同时，还可借鉴婴儿认知神经科学的技术，进一步探索和验证宠物影响人类的内在机制。
작위인류적충실화반，총물위인류적신심건강대래료다충적겁영향。총물적“인격”연구현시，총물병비단순적동물，이시구유독립사교공능적화반。타시인제지지계통외적보충，이비보상。타문통과격발인류적조료행위，위인류대래쾌악화안위。이유총물연구상존취양불구합리，행위실험궤핍등문제。미래연구적양본선택응해진량다이세，재탁전이유실험범식적동시，환가차감영인인지신경과학적기술，진일보탐색화험증총물영향인류적내재궤제。
As humans＇ loyal friends, pets have a widely acknowledged positive effect on humans＇ physical and mental health. The researches on pet personality have revealed that pets, rather than merely a kind of animal, were human-like companions who could interact with their owner like human friends. Pets are one part of the owners＇ social support system, but they are neither compensation or competitor against human relationship. They function independently. The behavior evidence implied that the bond between pets and their owners is similar with the parental relationship, where pets elicited the parental behavior and the owners also benefit from caring the pets. This review revealed the limitation of former researches in sample selection and the lack of experimental evidence. Further researches should have more concern on the integrity of＇ research samples, develop the behavioral experiment paradigm and introduce the neural cognition method to examine the inner mechanism by which pets affect the owners.