{"id":424,"date":"2023-10-22T17:32:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T17:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2023-11-24T17:46:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T17:46:50","slug":"what-do-people-find-rewarding-about-companionship-with-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/22\/what-do-people-find-rewarding-about-companionship-with-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do People Find Rewarding\u00a0About Companionship with Birds?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>By Brad Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pets are important. They provide joy, laughter, and companionship. \u00a0Some people may see them as members of their families. \u00a0Just like dogs and cats, birds as pets help make our lives meaningful and rewarding.  In Anderson&#8217;s (2003) study, 106 parrot owners responded to an essay question involving what they thought was most rewarding concerning avian companionship. \u00a0The most frequent response was love\/unconditional love (39% of the 106 participants).\u00a0The second most frequent response was perceiving birds as family members (38% of the 106 participants). \u00a0Twenty-nine percent listed companionship for this question. \u00a0Providing joy was listed by 23%. \u00a0\u00a0Moreover, it is interesting that making them (owner) laugh was indicated by 26%.  It appears that the parrot owners are quite attached to their parrots. \u00a0 This is also reflected in the amount of time they spend with their parrots. \u00a0 About forty-six percent of them spend more than three hours interacting<br>with their birds each day. (1)<br><br><strong>Notes<br><br><\/strong>1. \u00a0See Anderson&#8217;s article for other findings.<br><br><strong>References<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>Anderson, P. K. (2003). \u00a0A bird in the house: \u00a0An anthropological<br>\u00a0perspective on companion parrots. \u00a0<em>Society &amp; Animals, 11<\/em>, 393-418.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brad Bell Pets are important. They provide joy, laughter, and companionship. \u00a0Some people may see them as members of their families. \u00a0Just like dogs and cats, birds as pets help make our lives meaningful and rewarding. In Anderson&#8217;s (2003) study, 106 parrot owners responded to an essay question involving what they thought was most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/22\/what-do-people-find-rewarding-about-companionship-with-birds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Do People Find Rewarding\u00a0About Companionship with Birds?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}