Psychological Wellbeing, Perceived Stress, Coping Strategy of The Bengali Young Adult Pet Owners

Humans and pet animals have always shared a strong bond. They provide companionship and support to each other. Pet-animals have a significant role in human life. The aim of the study is to explore psychological wellbeing, perceived stress, and coping of the pet-owners (dog or cat or both) and non-pet owners. Both male and female Bengali pet owners and non-pet owners, age ranging between 20-25 years, were chosen for this study. General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg, 1978), Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen S et al. 1983), Coping Check List 2 (Rao K et al. 1989) were used.  Mean, S.D and t-Test findings indicate that the pet owners are more likely to possess good psychological well-being, use better coping strategies like problem focused, distraction (positive), acceptance/redefinition and perceived less stress than the non-pet owners. Pet ownership may create a positive contribution to health, behaviour and therefore the psychological well-being of the owners.