Front. Psychol. Frontiers in Psychology Front. Psychol. 1664-1078 Frontiers Media S.A. 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1629552 Psychology Correction Corrigendum: Study on adolescents' attitudes and attachment toward companion animals: mitigating the negative effects of cultural estrangement on wellbeing Koyasu Hikari 1 Ogasawara Sakura 1 Kikusui Takefumi 1 Murai Toshiya 2 Nishida Atsushi 3 Nagasawa Miho 1 * 1Laboratory of Human-Animal Interaction and Reciprocity, Department of Animal Science and Biotechnology, Azabu University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan 2Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 3The Unit for Mental Health Promotion, Research Center for Social Science & Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan

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 A Corrigendum on Study on adolescents' attitudes and attachment toward companion animals: mitigating the negative effects of cultural estrangement on wellbeing by Koyasu, H., Ogasawara, S., Kikusui, T., Murai, T., Nishida, A., and Nagasawa, M. (2025). Front. Psychol. 16:1552127. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1552127 mental health cultural estrangement adolescent companion animals attachment section-at-acceptance Psychology for Clinical Settings

In the published article, there was an error in Table 4 as published. Several statistically significant differences were missing, and one inequality sign was incorrect. The corrected Table 4 based on the original main text and statistical results, and its caption appears below.

Comparison among the four groups of CEI and wellbeing for each attachment item.

Attachment items ANOVA Multiple comparisons
F value p 1 vs. 3 2 vs. 4 1 vs. 2 1 vs. 4 2 vs. 3 3 vs. 4
I feel relaxed when I'm with my pet 7.68 0.053
My pet makes me feel happy 13.38 0.004 2 > 4* 2 > 3*
I don't want to take care of my pet as much as possible 23.69 < 0.001 1 < 2* 2 > 3**
Having a pet is a waste of money 21.57 < 0.001 1 < 2** 2 > 3**
I often talk to my pet 31.13 < 0.001 2 < 4** 1 > 2** 2 < 3**
I sleep with my pet 29.88 < 0.001 2 < 4** 1 > 2** 2 < 3**
I always talk about important things or open my heart to my pet 10.03 0.018 1 > 3**
I feel closer to my pet than to any of my family members 16.77 < 0.001 2 > 4** 1 > 4* 2 > 3*
Even when I'm out, I always worry about my pet and hurry home 19.07 < 0.001 2 > 4** 2 > 3**
I like to dress up my pet 8.38 0.039 1 > 4*
I always have a picture of my pet with me 13.86 0.003 2 > 4* 2 > 3**
Sometimes I feel like my pet is my best friend 3.33 0.344

Multiple comparison results show comparisons between (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.001). Bold text indicates comparisons between Groups 1 and 3, which were the focus of this study in particular.

The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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