Table 1.

Pet Attachment Questions Included in the PSID CDS.

	Response distributions (100%)
	Never	Sometimes	Often	Almost always	Mean (SD)	Correlation with total	Factor 1
Child Sample (n = 931)
How often do you spend time each day playing with or exercising your pet?	5.4	29.3	37.4	27.9	2.87 (0.88)	0.5448	0.6274
How often is your pet aware of your different moods?	12.8	31.8	31.3	24.1	2.67 (0.98)	0.4365	0.5113
When you come home, how often is your pet the first one you greet?	7.5	22.4	22.2	47.9	3.11 (0.99)	0.5051	0.5834
When you feel bad, how often do you seek your pet for comfort?	15.6	33.1	24	27.3	2.63 (1.04)	0.5377	0.6168
How often do you consider your pet to be a member of your family?	1.8	5.7	11.8	80.7	3.71 (0.65)	0.4143	0.4815
How often do you have your pet near you when you study, read, or watch TV?	18.4	31	25.1	25.5	2.58 (1.06)	0.5066	0.5830
Total reliability (Cronbach Alpha)						0.7518
Eigen value							1.95
Primary Caregiver Sample (n = 1,536)
Do you spend time each day playing with or exercising your pet?	11.5	32.3	28.5	27.7	2.72 (0.99)	0.5921	0.6908
When you feel bad, do you seek your pet for comfort?	27.7	36.5	21.7	14.1	2.22 (1.00)	0.5722	0.6723
How often do you consider your pet to be a member of your family?	5.5	9.6	15	69.9	3.49 (0.88)	0.5050	0.5915
Total reliability (Cronbach Alpha)						0.7329
Eigen value							1.28