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dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-23T13:27:47Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-10-23T13:27:47Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Xuereb Archer, R. (2022). The attitudes of university students towards animal testing (Bachelor's dissertation). | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/114420 | - |
dc.description | B.Psy.(Hons)(Melit.) | en_GB |
dc.description.abstract | Animal research has been carried out for many decades. It was relatively recently that it became a hotly contested issue. The price that animals have had to pay for our scientific advancements has been questioned more and more in recent decades and substantive research has gone into understanding whether animal testing is justified. Although much exploration has been conducted with regards to people’s attitudes towards general animal testing away from our shores, very little has been done in Malta. Research in Malta was mostly about attitudes towards animal testing within the context of cosmetics and consumer behaviour. This quantitative study was done with the aim to address this gap in the Maltese literature. This study will investigate what are the attitudes that University of Malta students have regarding animal testing and to explore whether there are associations between these attitudes and participant’s age, sex and the faculty in which they are carrying out their studies. Data collected through a self-reporting questionnaire, which measured multiple scenarios of animal testing, and statistical analyses found that the participants had an overall negative attitude towards animal tests, especially those involving pain. Furthermore, it was found that there were no significant associations with age or the faculty where the participants studied. It was only sex that had any meaningful difference, with females having more negative attitudes than males. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Animal experimentation | en_GB |
dc.subject | University students -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | University students -- Attitudes | en_GB |
dc.title | The attitudes of university students towards animal testing | en_GB |
dc.type | bachelorThesis | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.publisher.institution | University of Malta | en_GB |
dc.publisher.department | Faculty for Social Wellbeing. Department of Psychology | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | N/A | en_GB |
dc.contributor.creator | Xuereb Archer, Robert (2022) | - |
Appears in Collections: | Dissertations - FacSoW - 2022 Dissertations - FacSoWPsy - 2022 |
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