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ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2021

Reliability and Validity of Seven Feline Behavior and Personality Traits.

Salla Mikkola, Milla Salonen, Emma Hakanen, Sini Sulkama, Hannes Lohi

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Salla MikkolaDepartment of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-0333-6207
Milla SalonenDepartment of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0002-9901-7923
Emma HakanenDepartment of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
Sini SulkamaDepartment of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
Hannes LohiDepartment of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-1087-5532
University of Helsinki · FI

Funding

Academy of Finland 308887Agria and SKK Research Fund noneKissaliitto none
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Domestic cats are popular pets, and they have personalities, with stable behavior differences between individuals. Lately, feline behavior and personality have been studied with different approaches, for example, with owner-completed questionnaires. The majority of these studies, however, lack a sufficient validation and reliability assessment of the questionnaires used. We designed an online feline behavior and personality questionnaire to collect cat behavior data from their owners. Then, we ran a factor analysis to study the structure of personality and behavior in a dataset of over 4300 cats. For validation, we studied the internal consistency, test-retest reliability, inter-rater reliability, convergent validity and discriminant validity of this questionnaire and extracted factors. In addition, we briefly examined breed differences in the seven discovered factors: fearfulness, activity/playfulness, aggression toward humans, sociability toward humans, sociability toward cats, excessive grooming and litterbox issues. Most of the rank ordering of breeds within each trait paralleled what has been found in previous studies. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire and factors were good, strengthening owner-completed questionnaires as a method to collect behavioral data from pet animals. Breed differences suggest a genetic background for personality. However, these differences should be studied further with multidimensional models, including environmental and biological variables.

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cat personalityconvergent validitydiscriminant validityFelis silvestris catusinter-rater reliabilitypersonalitytemperamenttest–retest reliability

Identifiers

PMID34359119
PMCPMC8300181
OpenAlexW3178131880

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