dc.contributor.advisor | Frazer, Patricia | en |
dc.contributor.author | Kochman, Kaya | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-28T19:27:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-01-28T19:27:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Kochman, K. (2013). The relationship between neuroticism, current affect, past contact with dogs and fear of dogs. Bachelors Final Year Project, Dublin Business School. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10788/1624 | |
dc.description.abstract | The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between neuroticism, current affect,
past contact with dogs and fear of dogs, with a hope to enhance the understanding of this
specific fear. A mixed, experimental and correlational within-subjects design was used on a
convenience sample of 33 participants. Participants’ GSR was measured while exposing them to
a series neutral and dog images. The GSR response to dog images was significantly higher than
that to neutral pictures; the difference between the two was used as a physiological indicator of
‘fear’ in the correlational analysis. Neuroticism was measured by The Big Five Inventory (John,
Srivastava, 1999); current affect was measured by PANAS (Watson, Clark, Tellegen, 1988); past
exposure to dogs was measured by a Semantic Differential. Whilst there was no significant
association between ‘fear’ and the 3 psychological factors, the power of the tests was too low to
reject the hypotheses. Author keywords: fear of dogs, specific fear, fear of animals, neuroticism, negative affect, past exposure to dogs | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Dublin Business School | en |
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dc.subject | Psychology | en |
dc.subject | Clinical health psychology | en |
dc.title | The relationship between neuroticism, current affect, past contact with dogs and fear of dogs | en |
dc.type | Final Year Project | en |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright: The author | en |
dc.type.degreename | BA (Hons) in Psychology | en |
dc.type.degreelevel | BA (Hons) | en |