From: A cross-sectional study of factors associated with regular dog walking and intention to walk the dog
PBC | Comp.1 | Comp.2 | Comp.3 | Comp.4 | Comp.5 |
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Component name | Low PBC | Affected by dog factors and hygiene and unaffected by enjoyment | Easily affected by weather and health | Unaffected by working commitments and health | Affected by work and daylight |
Component description | Agree that most aspects are likely to affect them to some agree | Likely to be affected by their own dog difficulties and by hygiene factors, but not their enjoyment of the outdoors, and interactions with other walkers or dogs | Strongly affected by weather and personal illness but not the environment or their own dog difficulties, or size of their garden | Strongly affected by shorter days and weather and hygiene factors, but not by day of week or working hours or family or health commitments | Affected by shorter days, day of week and working hours, but not environment or hygiene |
PBC: | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
The shorter days in winter | 0.21 | 0.17 | 0.24 | 0.40 | 0.39 |
The weather eg (too hot, too cold, raining) | 0.19 | 0.07 | 0.43 | 0.32 | 0.28 |
My family commitments | 0.22 | 0.20 | 0.11 | -0.15 | 0.01 |
If I was ill | 0.20 | 0.03 | 0.40 | -0.15 | -0.05 |
If a family member was ill | 0.21 | 0.02 | 0.24 | -0.32 | -0.19 |
The poor health or age of my dog | 0.21 | -0.04 | 0.29 | -0.30 | -0.30 |
Not having places to walk (e.g. parks) | 0.22 | 0.17 | -0.12 | -0.22 | -0.16 |
Dog owners not picking up after their dogs | 0.23 | 0.29 | -0.07 | 0.21 | -0.34 |
The unavailability of dog poo bags | 0.22 | 0.26 | -0.18 | 0.15 | -0.29 |
The lack of bins available for dog poo | 0.24 | 0.29 | -0.10 | 0.30 | -0.21 |
Concern that my backyard/garden is too small | 0.19 | -0.05 | -0.41 | -0.18 | 0.16 |
The difficulty of walking two dogs | 0.14 | 0.15 | -0.29 | 0.06 | 0.07 |
My dog(s) would be unfriendly or difficult to control | 0.21 | 0.19 | -0.16 | -0.04 | 0.11 |
My enjoyment of the outdoors | 0.23 | -0.24 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.03 |
The fact that I feel safe when walking my dogs | 0.23 | -0.28 | -0.07 | 0.06 | 0.03 |
Seeing other people out walking | 0.22 | -0.36 | -0.20 | 0.20 | -0.03 |
Seeing other people out walking their dogs | 0.22 | -0.37 | -0.13 | 0.21 | -0.05 |
Knowing my dog enjoys going for a walk | 0.24 | -0.28 | 0.11 | 0.04 | -0.04 |
Seeing my dog interacting with other dogs | 0.26 | -0.31 | 0.04 | -0.03 | -0.12 |
Day of the week (i.e. being a non-work day rather than work day) | 0.22 | 0.05 | -0.11 | -0.34 | 0.38 |
My long working hours | 0.26 | 0.15 | -0.08 | -0.22 | 0.40 |