Do owners know how impulsive their dogs are?

• Created on 2022-03-22 by Jeffrey R. Stevens (jeffrey.r.stevens@gmail.com)
• Finalized on 2022-03-22

This repository provides the reproducible research materials for our project that investigates the dog spatial impulsivity and owner perceptions of dog impulsivity. This includes the following:

• Data
• R script for data analysis
• R Markdown file for the manuscript
• R Markdown file for supplementary materials

Citation

If you use any of these materials, please cite:

Stevens, J.R., Mathias, M., Herridge, M., Hughes-Duval, K., Wolff, L.M., & Yohe, M. (2022). Do owners know how impulsive their dogs are? Animal Behavior and Cognition, 9(3):261-286. https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.09.03.02.2022

Summary

Two data sets were collected. Data set 1 involved 117 dog-owner pairs from Lincoln, Nebraska, USA between Nov 2018 - Jul 2021. Data set 2 involved 103 dog-owner pairs from Lincoln, Nebraska, USA between Aug 2020 - Oct 2021. In the first data file, each row represents behavioral and survey responses from a single dog. In the second data file, each row represents the responses of a single owner for a particular survey scale.

License

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Files

Data files

stevens_etal_2022_data1.csv (primary behavioral and survey responses)

• experiment - study number
• date - date of experimental session
• subject - subject ID
• max_distance - maximum distance traveled by dog
• dog_age - dog age in years
• dog_age_acquisition - dog age at time of acquisition in years
• dog_breed - dog breed
• dog_sex - dog sex
• dog_neutered - dog neuter status (Yes or No)
• dog_acquision - means of acquiring dog (Adopted, Bred yourself, Other, Purchased from breeder)
• dog_weight - dog weight in pounds
• akccgc - whether dog is AKC Canine Good Citizen certified
• rate_dog_trained - owner’s evaluation of dog’s level of training on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being best
• cbarq_training_score - mean owner’s response to CBARQ training scale (only Study 2)
• dog_behavior_bennett_disobedient_score - Bennett & Rohlf (2007) disobedience score
• dog_behavior_bennett_aggressive_score - Bennett & Rohlf (2007) aggression score
• dog_behavior_bennett_nervous_score - Bennett & Rohlf (2007) nervousness score
• dog_behavior_bennett_destructive_score - Bennett & Rohlf (2007) destructiveness score
• dog_behavior_bennett_excitable_score - Bennett & Rohlf (2007) excitability score
• dog_obedience_hiby_score - Hiby et al. (2004) obedience score
• dog_problematic_behaviors_hiby_score - Hiby et al. (2004) problematic behaviors score
• dias_behavioral_regulation_score - Wright et al., 2011 DIAS behavioral regulation score
• dias_aggression_score - Wright et al., 2011 DIAS aggression score
• dias_responsiveness_score - Wright et al., 2011 DIAS responsiveness score
• dias_overall_score - Wright et al., 2011 DIAS overall score (mean of other scores)
• mdors_score - Monash Dog Owner Relationship Scale (Dwyer et al., 2006)
• separation_anxiety_yesno - presence of separation anxiety (Yes or No)
• personality_extraversion_score - brief Big-Five personality extraversion scale (Gosling et al., 2003)
• personality_agreeableness_score - brief Big-Five personality agreeableness scale (Gosling et al., 2003)
• personality_conscientiousness_score - brief Big-Five personality conscientiousness scale (Gosling et al., 2003)
• personality_stability_score - brief Big-Five personality stability scale (Gosling et al., 2003)
• personality_openness_score - brief Big-Five personality openness scale (Gosling et al., 2003)
• crt_score - Cognitive Reflection Task score (Frederick, 2005)
• numeracy_score - Berlin Numeracy Test score (Cokely et al., 2012)
• owner_gender - owner gender
• owner_marital_status - owner marital status
• other_dogs - presence of other dogs in the home (Yes or No)
• household_income - annual household income category
• response - response to question

stevens_etal_2022_data2.csv (item-specific data for calculating reliability)

• experiment - study number
• survey - name of survey
• item_1-item_13 - individual items (surveys differ on number of items, so NAs represent no items)

R code

stevens_etal_2022_rcode.R - code for running computations and generating figures

R Markdown documents

stevens_etal_2022.Rmd - R Markdown document with R code embedded for main manuscript stevens_etal_2022_SM.Rmd - R Markdown document with R code embedded for supplementary materials

Installation

To reproduce these results, first clone or unzip the Git repository into a folder. Then, ensure that a subfolder named “figures” is in the folder. Next, open stevens_etal_2022_rcode.R in RStudio or another R interface and ensure that all packages mentioned at the top of the script are installed. Once all packages are installed, run the script in R using source("stevens_etal_2022_rcode.R").

Once the script runs without errors, you can compile the R Markdown document stevens_etal_2022.Rmd. Open this file in RStudio and ensure that you have packages {knitr} and {rmarkdown} installed. Once installed, use {knitr} to render the document (control-shift-K). Use the same process to render stevens_etal_2022_SM.Rmd.

Dataset Metadata

The following table is necessary for this dataset to be indexed by search engines such as Google Dataset Search.

property	value
name	Dog spatial impulsivity and owner perceptions of dog impulsivity dataset
description	The dataset from the paper [Do owners know how impulsive their dogs are?](https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.09.03.02.2022). Two data sets were collected. Data set 1 involved 117 dog-owner pairs from Lincoln, Nebraska, USA between Nov 2018 - Jul 2021. Data set 2 involved 103 dog-owner pairs from Lincoln, Nebraska, USA between Aug 2020 - Oct 2021. In the first data file, each row represents behavioral and survey responses from a single dog. In the second data file, each row represents the responses of a single owner for a particular survey scale.
url	https://github.com/unl-cchil/dogspatialchoice
sameAs	https://github.com/unl-cchil/dogspatialchoice
citation	https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.09.03.02.2022
license	property value name CC BY-SA 4.0 url https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/