Effect of Dog Video Watching on Emotional Changes in 20-30s

Abstract

Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) is known to have a beneficial effect on emotion directly or indirectly, and through this, many studies in the field of Animal-Assisted Activity (AAA), Education (AAE), and Therapy (AAT) are being actively researched. In Korea, studies on indirect animal-assisted activities using media are insufficient. Therefore, in this study, we tried to determine whether the dog video affects positive and negative emotions after the exposure time of 20 to 30 seconds. The questionnaire was collected using the Google online questionnaire form, a video of a dog made by the researcher, a positive, and negative affect scales (PANAS) were used. The video is a short video of about 3 minutes and consists of scenes where dogs interact with people on the lawn. The same scale before and after watching the video and 427 questionnaires of men and women in their 20s and 30s were analyzed using the SPSS 25.0 program. Through the survey, there was a significant difference after viewing the other items except for the two items of ‘determine’ and ‘attentive’ among 20 items (p<001). The index of positive emotion increased from 29.9±7.83 before watching the video to 33.88±8.2 after watching, and the index of negative emotion decreased from 16.58±6.94 before watching the video to 13.35±5.48 after watching. As a result of comparing the sum of positive and negative emotions by gender, age, and overall, a significant difference (p<001) was confirmed by viewing in all groups. Through these results, it was confirmed that the watching the dog video can affect emotional changes regardless of gender or age, it is considered to be fundamental research on indirect media based HAI.