ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
The Impact of Caring and Killing on Physiological and Psychometric Measures of Stress in Animal Shelter Employees: A Pilot Study.
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- A Purr-Suasive Case for Sterilization: How Sterilizing Working Cats Supports Dairy Farmers' Wellbeing, Improves Animal Welfare, and Benefits the Environment.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- The Impact of Job Demands, Job Resources, and Organisational Justice on Global Health and Turnover Intentions in Animal Care Workers.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Fostering culture of care for early career researchers-Building a trustful environment: Insights from a German perspective.PloS one · 2025Article
- Zoo professionals and volunteers in the U.S: experiences and prevalence of burnout, mental health, and animal loss.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Perceptions of swine euthanasia among Brazilian caretakers from non-integrated swine farms.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Hispanic worker attitudes toward pig euthanasia on U.S. farms.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Solutions-Based Approach to Urban Cat Management-Case Studies of a One Welfare Approach to Urban Cat Management.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Stray and Owner-Relinquished Cats in Australia-Estimation of Numbers Entering Municipal Pounds, Shelters and Rescue Groups and Their Outcomes.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- The Impact of Lethal, Enforcement-Centred Cat Management on Human Wellbeing: Exploring Lived Experiences of Cat Carers Affected by Cat Culling at the Port of Newcastle.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Veterinarian burnout demographics and organizational impacts: a narrative review.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Review
- Compassion Fatigue and Coping Mechanisms of Laboratory Animal Professionals from Europe, China, and Japan.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2022Article
- Interviews with Indian Animal Shelter Staff: Similarities and Differences in Challenges and Resiliency Factors Compared to Western Counterparts.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- The Evolving Role of Triage and Appointment-Based Admission to Improve Service, Care and Outcomes in Animal Shelters.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- Working with laboratory rodents in Spain: a survey on welfare and wellbeing.Laboratory animal research · 2021Article
- Social Workers in Animal Shelters: A Strategy Toward Reducing Occupational Stress Among Animal Shelter Workers.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2021Review
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Abstract
Animal shelter employees are in a unique position where they care for, and later kill, the same animals. The aim of our exploratory study was to assess whether "caring" and/or "killing" evokes physiological and psychometric indicators of stress in employees. Experiment 1 compared three careers that kill regularly, but involve varying degrees of husbandry (
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