Abstract
Corrigendum to Puppy love in the time of corona: Dog ownership protects against loneliness for those living alone during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Oliva, J. L., & Johnston, K. L. (2019). Puppy love in the time of corona: Dog ownership protects against loneliness for those living alone during the COVID-19 lockdown. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764020944195
The manuscript was published with an old version of the results write-up for one of the analyses ran. This affects the first three paragraphs on page 6 of the article and these paragraphs should be replaced with the below text.
To test the hypothesis that mindfulness would mediate the relationship between dog / cat interaction and loneliness, two mediation analyses were conducted with the PROCESS macro (Hayes, 2017) using 5,000 bootstrapped samples and with a HC3 adjustment applied. Mindfulness training experience was included as a covariate for both models.
For dog interaction (n = 111), the overall model was significant (R2 = 0.19, p < .001) and indicated that 19% of the variance in loneliness was explained by dog interaction, mindfulness, and previous mindfulness experience. However, the direct effect (B = −0.04, p = .805, 95%CI −0.39, 0.30), and indirect effect (B = 0.00, 95% BCaCI −0.19, 0.20) were not significant, indicating no bivariate or mediated relationship. Further examination indicated no significant relationship between dog interaction and mindfulness (B = −0.03, p = .986, 95%CI −3.13, 3.07) but a significant direct effect of mindfulness on loneliness (B = −0.06, p < .001, 95%CI −0.08, −0.04).
Similar findings were noted for cat interaction (n = 101). The overall model was significant (R2 = 0.12, p = .02) and indicated that 12% of the variance in loneliness was explained by cat interaction, mindfulness, and previous mindfulness experience. However, the direct effect (B = 0.07, p = .780, 95%CI −0.42, 0.56) and indirect effect (B = −0.04, 95% BCaCI −0.18, 0.10) were not significant, indicating no bivariate or mediated relationship. Further examination indicated no significant relationship between cat interaction and mindfulness (B−=−0.96, p−=−.613, 95%CI −2.78, 4.69) but a significant direct effect of mindfulness on loneliness (B−= −0.04, p = .002, 95%CI −0.07, −0.02).
The authors would like to apologise for this error.