TY - JOUR
T1 - Attitudes to farm animal welfare
T2 - Factor structure and personality correlates in farmers and agriculture students
AU - Austin, Elizabeth J.
AU - Deary, Ian J.
AU - Edwards-Jones, Gareth
AU - Arey, Dale
PY - 2005/9/1
Y1 - 2005/9/1
N2 - Although the there is considerable public interest in farm animal welfare, relatively little work has been done on the welfare attitudes of farmers. We describe the development of a welfare attitude scale, the EFAWS. The factor structure and correlates of this scale were examined in Scottish pig and sheep farmers, and in agriculture students. The EFAWS was found to have a hierarchical structure, with two superordinate dimensions corresponding to welfare and business orientations being present in both groups. Five narrower facets were extracted for farmers and six for students, with the two factor structures being similar. Factor scores were found to be correlated significantly with personality traits, knowledge about welfare, and farm welfare scores in interpretable ways.
AB - Although the there is considerable public interest in farm animal welfare, relatively little work has been done on the welfare attitudes of farmers. We describe the development of a welfare attitude scale, the EFAWS. The factor structure and correlates of this scale were examined in Scottish pig and sheep farmers, and in agriculture students. The EFAWS was found to have a hierarchical structure, with two superordinate dimensions corresponding to welfare and business orientations being present in both groups. Five narrower facets were extracted for farmers and six for students, with the two factor structures being similar. Factor scores were found to be correlated significantly with personality traits, knowledge about welfare, and farm welfare scores in interpretable ways.
KW - Animal welfare
KW - Attitudes
KW - Factor analysis
KW - Farmers
KW - Personality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34248634387&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1027/1614-0001.26.3.107
DO - 10.1027/1614-0001.26.3.107
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34248634387
SN - 1614-0001
VL - 26
SP - 107
EP - 120
JO - Journal of Individual Differences
JF - Journal of Individual Differences
IS - 3
ER -