Proceedings of the 3rd Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2021)

The Role of Self-Compassion as a Moderator between Attachment to Companion Animal and Perceived Stress

Authors
Kimi Maeko1, Riana Sahrani2, *
1Bachelor of Psychology Study Program, Universitas Tarumanagara, Jakarta, Indonesia
2Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Tarumanagara, Jakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: rianas@fpsi.untar.ac.id
Corresponding Author
Riana Sahrani
Available Online 21 April 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220404.220How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Attachment to Pets / Companion Animals; Perceived Stress; Self-compassion
Abstract

Perceived stress is a subjective perception that individuals have towards stressors in life. Due to the occurring pandemic, individuals’ perceived stress are at risk as various stressors resulting from social and physical distancing have emerged. For certain individuals, the lack of social interaction could also act as a stressor in their lives. To fulfill this lack of social interaction, some individuals would start to accept or further perceived their companion animal as a source of social support. Moreover, staying at home enables individuals to spend more time with their companion animal, which in turn could strengthen the attachment towards their companion animal. The attachment style that appears would then affect an individual’s level of perceived stress. To further substantiate the relationship between these variables, another variable is added into the equation, namely self-compassion. As results of past research papers had found that self-compassion has a profound effect towards perceived stress, the key point of this research is to measure the role of self-compassion as a moderator between attachment to companion animal towards perceived stress. In this quantitative research, there were 323 pet owners/animal caregivers, aged 15-55 years old, that took part in answering the following psychological instruments; Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10), Pet Attachment Questionnaire (PAQ), and Self-Compassion Scale (SCS)/Skala Welas Diri (SWD). Results of this study indicate that self-compassion has no significant role as a moderator (p= 0.285>0.05), yet it has a prominent role as the second independent variable.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
21 April 2022
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.220404.220
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220404.220How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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