Are Dogs More Likely To Bite You If You're Anxious?
You will definitely become a victim of dog bite when you feel anxious regularly.
According to researchers from the University of Liverpool, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health.
Said this in an email that was sent to live science "We have no idea how many people are actually bitten by dogs and how many bites require medical treatment."
In the process of trying to get a result that should have a more accurate snapshot of canine-induced damage, a lady named Westgarth and her colleagues went through some process by surveying almost 700 people in 385 households in the small town of Cheshire asking them about their dog-bite experience.
And also going door to door to conduct interviews about the dog bite incident.
The questionnaires were left to ask anyone who had been bitten by dogs to expantiate on one biting incident, and also to provide good and detailed information on how they were during the bite, their relationship with the dogs, how it was built and how old they are.
They also wanted to know the number of people that had been bitten by a dog, if maybe the bites involves any treatment that needs to be carried out and also whether the victims knew the dog that had bitten them.
They also used the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI),
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Which is to access emotional stability.
And also, it measures the aspects of personality, which includes
- emotional stability
- and neuroticism,
to know if similar traits might have any bearing on the risk of being bitten.
Several dogs owners were seen to have experienced dog bite more often as likely as those who did not own dogs, and more than half of the people that were interviewed said they had been bitten by a dog even without knowing it.
The TIPI scores may also have showed that the more you’re emotionally stable and the less neurotic an individual was, there is a lower risk of being bitten by a dog.
"Although this was a small study, the findings are insightful and provide much improved indicators of the true burden of dog bites on public health," said by Carri Westgarth, who is a dog behaviour expert at University of Liverpool.