Comparison of personality traits, quality of life, and attitude towards life in pet clients with veterinary clinics in Gorgan

Subject Areas : social psychology

Ehsan Ziadloo ¹ , Javanshir Asadi ² , Soniya Jahedi-Delivand ³

1 - MA of General Psychology, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran
3 - PhD Student, Department of psycholog,, Islamic Azad University Kish International Branch, Kish, Iran.

Received: 2022-03-27 Accepted : 2022-08-25 Published : 2022-06-22

Keywords: Personality traits# quality of life# attitude towards life,

Abstract :

Objective: Personality is one of the effective factors in creating individual differences and a set of personal traits and characteristics that can be used to compare people with each other. Personality traits can affect how a person recognizes and interprets the environment and play an important role in their quality of life. It is generally believed that different personality traits of individuals affect the degree of satisfaction or dissatisfaction of people with life and its quality. The aim of this study was to compare personality traits, quality of life and attitude toward life in patients with and without a pet to veterinary clinics in Gorgan.Methods: The method of this research was descriptive-causal comparative. The statistical population is patients with and without pets to veterinary clinics in Gorgan in 2016, the sampling method is available and 60 people were selected as the sample, to collect data from the 6-factor Hexaco questionnaire. (HEXACO-PI-R) was used for personality traits, Weir and Sherbon questionnaire for quality of life and Batista questionnaire for attitude towards life.Results: The results of multivariate analysis of variance showed that among the components of personality traits with a significant level (0.383), the component of honesty and humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreement, conscientiousness, openness to experiences New (which was higher than the rest subscale of extroversion) and among the components of quality of life with a significant level (0.656) physical role, physical pain, social function, emotional role, general health (which is the subscale of social performance from The rest was more) and among the components of life attitude with a significant level (0.514) of the framework component and completion, there is a significant difference between the two groups.Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, there is a significant difference between personality traits, quality of life and attitude towards life in clients with and without a pet.Method: The method of the present study was descriptive-causal comparative. The statistical population is clients with and without pets in veterinary clinics of Gorgan city. Sampling method is available and 60 people were selected as a sample. A standard questionnaire was used to collect data.Result: The results of multivariate analysis of variance showed that among the components of personality traits, honesty and humility, emotionality, agreement, conscientiousness, openness to new experiences and among the components of quality of life, physical role, physical pain, emotional role, general health And among the components of life attitude, the component of framework and complementarity there is a significant difference between the two groups.Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference between personality traits, quality of life and attitude towards life in clients with and without a pet.

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