The High End of Toy Motivation in Dogs: Developmental Predictors and Relevance for Sport and Working Dogs - legend and comments

This file provides a detailed variable legend and explanatory comments for the raw dataset used in the study <i>“From Play Motivation to Addictive-like Behaviour Towards Toys in Dogs: Developmental Predictors and Relevance for Sport and Working Dogs.”</i> It includes definitions of all variable names, explanations of abbreviations, coding schemes for categorical responses, and scoring instructions for derived variables (including AB-Q components). These annotations are designed to facilitate the transparent interpretation and reproducibility of the dataset. The file contains no questionnaire items or raw responses; it only includes metadata and clarifying comments.