TY - JOUR
AU1 - Taylor, Nicola
AU2 - Signal, Tania
AB -  Tania D. Signal 1 and Nicola Taylor Attitudes to Animals: Demographics Within a Community Sample ABSTRACT The results of various studies have suggested a range of demo- graphic and personality variables that may affect attitudes toward the treatment of nonhuman species; however, the literature has reached little consensus. Various limited populations have used The Attitude to Animals Scale (AAS), developed initially by Herzog, Betchar t, and Pittman (1991), as a quantitative measure of atti- tudes toward the treatment of nonhuman species. The current study administered the AAS to a large community sample within Australia, resulting in approximately 600 respondents. The study found demographic variables such as age, educational level, pres- ence of children in the current dwelling, current, and past com- panion animal ownership to have no statistically significant effect on AAS scores. The study found both occupation and income to have an effect on AAS scores. This paper examines and discusses all of these variables and their effects (or lack thereof ). An acceptance of the idea that attitudes toward non- human animals may affect attitudes toward humans opens the door to many possibilities. As awareness increases concerning the links between attitudes to humans and nonhuman animals, 
TI - Attitudes to Animals: Demographics Within a Community Sample
JF - Society & Animals
DO - 10.1163/156853006776778743
DA - 2006-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/attitudes-to-animals-demographics-within-a-community-sample-ZwDYw5oIN4
SP - 147
EP - 157
VL - 14
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve