Enriching Lives: How Spending Time with Pets is Related to the Experiential Well-Being of Older Americans
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Personal and Family Financial Planning, Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, The University of ArizonaIssue Date
2021-01-08
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Kalenkoski, C.M., Korankye, T. Enriching Lives: How Spending Time with Pets is Related to the Experiential Well-Being of Older Americans. Applied Research Quality Life (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-020-09908-0Rights
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This study examines how caring for pets and walking, exercising, or playing with pets is associated with the experiential well-being of older Americans using activity-episode-level data from the 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) and their associated Well-Being Modules (WBM). Estimating a series of ordered probit models that relate various measures of experiential well-being to different measures of pet-related activities, the results show that caring for pets is associated with greater meaning than other activities, controlling for a standard set of demographic and other person-level characteristics. Walking, exercising, or playing with household pets or animals is associated with greater happiness and meaning and less stress relative to other activities. The results from sensitivity analyses show that the magnitudes of the associations for people who live alone are larger than for those who live with others. © 2021, The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) and Springer Nature B.V.Note
12 month embargo; published 08 January 2021ISSN
1871-2584EISSN
1871-2576Version
Final accepted manuscriptae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s11482-020-09908-0