Abstract
100 freshman women completed the Eysenck Personality Inventory, the Alienation Scale, and a researcher-constructed questionnaire to determine the association of pet-ownership with extraversion, with neuroticism, with alienation, with incidence of parental divorce, and with several demographic variables. Pearson product-moment and point-biserial correlations rested for significance and a stepwise multiple regression were applied to the data. The predicted positive correlation between pet-ownership and extraversion was not found. Hypotheses predicting pet-ownership to be negatively correlated with neuroticism, alienation, and incidence of parental divorce were all supported by correlations of low magnitude.
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