Beliefs About Physicians: Their Role in Health Care Utilization, Satisfaction, and Compliance

Autor:	Peter H. Ditto, Jonathon R Kalish, James L. Hilton, Kathleen A. Moore
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	Expectancy theory Social Psychology business.industry Authoritarianism Psychological Models humanities Compliance (psychology) Health services Vignette Health care Health behavior business Psychology Social psychology Applied Psychology
Zdroj:	Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 17:23-48
ISSN:	1532-4834 0197-3533
Popis:	Although the most prominent social psychological models of health behavior are expectancy based, little attention has been paid to the role of individuals' beliefs about physicians in the utilization and evaluation of health care. Three studies suggest that individuals' beliefs about whether physicians should adopt an authoritarian or egalitarian role in health care interactions are related to health care utilization, satisfaction, and compliance. In Study 1, we found that authoritarian role expectations were associated with more self-reported visits to medical professionals in a sample of college undergraduates. In Study 2, we examined a sample of elderly outpatients and found that authoritarian beliefs were associated with objective indicators of greater health care utilization. In Study 3, we had undergraduates with authoritarian or egalitarian role expectations read a vignette in which a physician displayed either an authoritarian or egalitarian communication style. Although all subjects reported grea...
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