Addressing Barriers to Action: Increasing Cat Guardians’ Compliance with Professional Environmental Enrichment Advice

IF 1.7 2区 农林科学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY Anthrozoos Pub Date : 2023-09-13 DOI:10.1080/08927936.2023.2254553
Esther van Leeuwen, Emma ter Mors
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Guardians of domestic cats may seek advice from a veterinarian or professional cat behavior advisor to address problematic cat behaviors. This advice typically involves a degree of environmental enrichment, which guardians sometimes experience as an encroachment on their personal lives and living environment. This may explain why compliance with enrichment advice is often poor and problem behaviors persist. The aim of this study was to investigate how advice compliance can be increased by addressing guardians’ barriers to action. Using the Theory of Planned Behavior as a theoretical foundation, we differentiated between motivational- and capacity-related perceived behavioral control (PBC) to better understand the root of guardians’ implementation resistance. We argue that motivational PBC is a more malleable construct than capacity PBC and tested the hypothesis that motivational PBC can increase when guardians experience social pressure when other guardians hold positive beliefs about environmental enrichment (subjective norm). We conducted a survey of 221 cat guardians who were asked to imagine they had sought and received enrichment advice to address their cat’s behavioral problems. The positive or negative beliefs and actions of other cat guardians with respect to environmental enrichment were varied experimentally as a means of influencing the subjective norm. Results confirmed the prediction that exposure to others’ positive enrichment beliefs (versus negative enrichment beliefs) results in a more positive subjective norm with respect to enrichment, which subsequently increases motivational PBC and compliance intention. Although compliance intention was also predicted by capacity PBC, capacity PBC was not influenced by subjective norm, as expected. This study is the first to differentiate between motivational- and capacity-related PBC as barriers to action, which proved fruitful. Understanding the nature of clients’ implementation resistance helps practitioners select the most appropriate technique to address barriers to action. We offer several practical recommendations to this end.
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解决行动障碍:提高猫监护人对专业环境富集建议的依从性
家猫的监护人可以向兽医或专业的猫行为顾问寻求建议,以解决猫的问题行为。这种建议通常涉及一定程度的环境丰富,监护人有时会觉得这侵犯了他们的个人生活和生活环境。这也许可以解释为什么强化建议的依从性通常很差,问题行为持续存在。本研究的目的是调查如何通过解决监护人的行动障碍来增加咨询依从性。以计划行为理论为理论基础,区分动机相关和能力相关的感知行为控制(PBC),以更好地理解监护人实施抗拒的根源。我们认为动机性PBC是一个比能力性PBC更具可塑性的结构,并验证了当其他监护人对环境充实(主观规范)持积极信念时,当监护人感受到社会压力时,动机性PBC会增加的假设。我们对221名猫监护人进行了一项调查,要求他们想象自己已经寻求并收到了丰富的建议,以解决他们的猫的行为问题。作为影响主观规范的一种手段,其他猫监护人对环境丰富的积极或消极信念和行动在实验中有所不同。结果证实,接触他人的积极充实信念(相对于消极充实信念)会导致更积极的充实主观规范,从而增加动机PBC和依从性意愿。虽然能力PBC也能预测合规意愿,但正如预期的那样,能力PBC不受主观规范的影响。这项研究是第一个区分动机相关和能力相关的PBC作为行动障碍的研究,结果证明是富有成效的。了解客户实施阻力的本质有助于从业者选择最合适的技术来解决行动障碍。为此,我们提出了一些切实可行的建议。
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Anthrozoos
Anthrozoos 农林科学-兽医学
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3.40
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43
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>36 weeks
期刊介绍: A vital forum for academic dialogue on human-animal relations, Anthrozoös is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that has enjoyed a distinguished history as a pioneer in the field since its launch in 1987. The key premise of Anthrozoös is to address the characteristics and consequences of interactions and relationships between people and non-human animals across areas as varied as anthropology, ethology, medicine, psychology, veterinary medicine and zoology. Articles therefore cover the full range of human–animal relations, from their treatment in the arts and humanities, through to behavioral, biological, social and health sciences.
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