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Direct linkHeadey, Bruce; Grabka, Markus M. – Social Indicators Research, 2007
The German and Australian "longitudinal" surveys analysed here are the first national representative surveys to show that (1) people who continuously own a pet are the healthiest group and (2) people who cease to have a pet or never had one are less healthy. Most previous studies which have claimed that pets confer health benefits were…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Academic Achievement, Social Sciences, Foreign Countries
