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work_bpuyakqasndgfmjyuztzef45ea	Lucinda Woodward	People and Their Pets: A Relational Perspective on Interpersonal Complementarity and Attachment in Companion Animal Owners	2007.0	22	.pdf	application/pdf	8154	843	60	People and Their Pets: A Relational Perspective on Interpersonal Complementarity and Attachment in Companion Animal Owners companion animal guardians (owners)—89 reporting their most recent pet a cat and 177 reporting their most recent pet a dog—to assess the relationships between interpersonal complementarity and companion animal attachment. pet owners toward their companion animals is actually parental behavior human and the pet may contribute significantly to the strength of the companion animal bond and provides support for an interpersonal conceptualization of the dyadic transaction. Most pet owners report that they keep animals for social reasons or companionship (Endenburg, 't Hart, & Bouw, 1994). analyzed interpersonal complementarity between pet owners and their companion animals in order to predict owners' relative attachment and satisfaction IMI-SO), pet behavior, and companion animal attachment (PAS). sex predicted companion animal attachment (t (234) = –2.76, p < .006), perceptions of pet behavior (t (229) = –3.00, p < .003), and complementarity 	./cache/work_bpuyakqasndgfmjyuztzef45ea.pdf	./txt/work_bpuyakqasndgfmjyuztzef45ea.txt