Michael Hoerger
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 756956 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Hoerger |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Hoerger |
| ASSINATURA | HOERGER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4398-2820 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Development and Validation of the Delaying Gratification Inventory in Japanese ( DGI ‐J)
We often face situations requiring us to exert self‐control, wherein we set goals and invest plenty of effort in achieving them, but are also disturbed by urges to give in to temptations. Since self‐control is associated with outcomes across various domains, it is important to assess individual domain‐specific differences in self‐control to further understand how it develops and contributes to successful outcomes. The present study aimed to devel…
Understanding and Addressing Mental Health Disparities and Stigma in Serious Illness and Palliative Care
Patients receiving palliative care experience stigma associated with their illness, personal identity, and healthcare utilization. These stigmas can occur at any stage of the disease process. Varying stigmas combine to cause palliative care patients to feel misunderstood, contribute to treatment barriers, and further negative stereotypes held by clinicians. Stigma surrounding palliative care patients stems from complex intersections of varied acc…
Cultural Differences Predict Palliative Care Development Across the United States
Across the United States, some regions demonstrate greater readiness to adopt palliative care than others. This geographic variation in access and utilization may be due to cultural variation in "tightness" and "looseness," which can be understood as the relative strength and enforcement of social norms and behavioral constraint within a culture. The present study examined the influence of cultural tightness-looseness on access to palliative care…
State mental health infrastructure, personality, and politics of shelter-in-place
Cultivating community-based participatory research (CBPR) to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced food service workers to experience complex decisions about health and safety, stress and mental health concerns, and longer-term concerns. Challenging health decisions included attempting to avoid an airborne infectious illness when employers were mainly only concerned with droplet precautions and trying to decide protocols for testing and isolation without clear guidance, free tests, or paid sick leave. Key menta…
Attending Patient Funerals as a Follow-Up Practice of Pediatric Oncologists
This study assessed pediatric oncology professionals’ attitudes and attendance at patient funerals. Many professionals endorsed some level of agreement that funeral attendance respects professional boundaries. Nearly all pediatric oncology professionals (89.2%) reported attending a patient funeral at least once, a rate significantly higher than estimates in other specialties ( p <.001). Attitudes and rates of attendance were slightly higher in ol…
The TRIBE model
Finding Meaning in Life After a Cancer Diagnosis
Finding meaning in life is important for maintaining physical and mental well-being. Obtaining a deeper understanding of activities that patients with cancer find meaningful is essential in improving cancer care and increasing meaning in life in these individuals. The sample of the present study consisted of patients with cancer ( N = 61) who reported their levels of financial strain and listed types of activities that they found most meaningful …
Self-complexity and socio-emotional adjustment to a romantic event in early adulthood
Self-complexity, the extent that people experience themselves as having a number of distinct and meaningful social roles, may have implications for young adults' socio-emotional adjustment to romantic life events. Based on prior research, we hypothesized that participants who reported lower self-complexity would have worse adjustment to a negative event (not having a date on Valentine's Day) but better adjustment to a positive event (having a dat…
Big Five personality and health in adults with and without cancer
Personality is associated with health, but examinations in patients with illnesses are lacking. We aimed to determine whether personality-physical health associations differed between community and cancer samples. This cross-sectional study involved 168 participants without cancer, 212 men with prostate cancer, and 55 women with breast cancer. We examined whether the Big Five personality dimensions were associated with health behaviors and multip…
Multiple Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Dass-21 Depression and Anxiety Scales
The DASS-21 is a public domain instrument that is commonly used to evaluate depression and anxiety in psychiatric and community populations; however, the factor structure of the measure has not previously been examined in oncologic settings. Given that the psychometric properties of measures of distress may be compromised in the context of symptoms related to cancer and its treatment, the present study evaluated the psychometric properties of the…
Right-to-try laws and individual patient “compassionate use” of experimental oncology medications
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Expanded Access program allows patients with life-threatening diagnoses, such as advanced cancer, to use experimental medications without participating in clinical research (colloquially, "Compassionate Use"). Sixteen U.S. states recently passed "right-to-try" legislation aimed at promoting Expanded Access. Acknowledging popular support, Expanded Access could undermine clinical trials that benefit public he…
Personality Change Pre- to Post- Loss in Spousal Caregivers of Patients With Terminal Lung Cancer
Personality is relatively stable in adulthood but could change in response to life transitions, such as caring for a spouse with a terminal illness. Using a case–control design, spousal caregivers ( n = 31) of patients with terminal lung cancer completed the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) twice, 1.5 years apart, before and after the patient’s death. A demographically matched sample of community controls ( n = 93) completed the NEO-FFI on a s…
Experiential avoidance and interpersonal problems
Direct and indirect associations between experiential avoidance and reduced delay of gratification
Emotional intelligence
Only recently have researchers begun to examine individual differences in affective forecasting. The present investigation was designed to make a theoretical contribution to this emerging literature by examining the role of emotional intelligence in affective forecasting. Emotional intelligence was hypothesized to be associated with affective forecasting accuracy, memory for emotional reactions, and subsequent improvement on an affective forecast…
Immune neglect in affective forecasting
Immune neglect in affective forecasting
Big Five personality and health in adults with and without cancer
Personality is associated with health, but examinations in patients with illnesses are lacking. We aimed to determine whether personality-physical health associations differed between community and cancer samples. This cross-sectional study involved 168 participants without cancer, 212 men with prostate cancer, and 55 women with breast cancer. We examined whether the Big Five personality dimensions were associated with health behaviors and multip…
Self-complexity and socio-emotional adjustment to a romantic event in early adulthood
Self-complexity, the extent that people experience themselves as having a number of distinct and meaningful social roles, may have implications for young adults' socio-emotional adjustment to romantic life events. Based on prior research, we hypothesized that participants who reported lower self-complexity would have worse adjustment to a negative event (not having a date on Valentine's Day) but better adjustment to a positive event (having a dat…
Immune neglect in affective forecasting
Emotional intelligence
Only recently have researchers begun to examine individual differences in affective forecasting. The present investigation was designed to make a theoretical contribution to this emerging literature by examining the role of emotional intelligence in affective forecasting. Emotional intelligence was hypothesized to be associated with affective forecasting accuracy, memory for emotional reactions, and subsequent improvement on an affective forecast…
Direct and indirect associations between experiential avoidance and reduced delay of gratification
Personality Change Pre- to Post- Loss in Spousal Caregivers of Patients With Terminal Lung Cancer
Personality is relatively stable in adulthood but could change in response to life transitions, such as caring for a spouse with a terminal illness. Using a case–control design, spousal caregivers ( n = 31) of patients with terminal lung cancer completed the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) twice, 1.5 years apart, before and after the patient’s death. A demographically matched sample of community controls ( n = 93) completed the NEO-FFI on a s…
Experiential avoidance and interpersonal problems
Right-to-try laws and individual patient “compassionate use” of experimental oncology medications
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Expanded Access program allows patients with life-threatening diagnoses, such as advanced cancer, to use experimental medications without participating in clinical research (colloquially, "Compassionate Use"). Sixteen U.S. states recently passed "right-to-try" legislation aimed at promoting Expanded Access. Acknowledging popular support, Expanded Access could undermine clinical trials that benefit public he…
Multiple Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Dass-21 Depression and Anxiety Scales
The DASS-21 is a public domain instrument that is commonly used to evaluate depression and anxiety in psychiatric and community populations; however, the factor structure of the measure has not previously been examined in oncologic settings. Given that the psychometric properties of measures of distress may be compromised in the context of symptoms related to cancer and its treatment, the present study evaluated the psychometric properties of the…
Big Five personality and health in adults with and without cancer
Personality is associated with health, but examinations in patients with illnesses are lacking. We aimed to determine whether personality-physical health associations differed between community and cancer samples. This cross-sectional study involved 168 participants without cancer, 212 men with prostate cancer, and 55 women with breast cancer. We examined whether the Big Five personality dimensions were associated with health behaviors and multip…
Self-complexity and socio-emotional adjustment to a romantic event in early adulthood
Self-complexity, the extent that people experience themselves as having a number of distinct and meaningful social roles, may have implications for young adults' socio-emotional adjustment to romantic life events. Based on prior research, we hypothesized that participants who reported lower self-complexity would have worse adjustment to a negative event (not having a date on Valentine's Day) but better adjustment to a positive event (having a dat…
Finding Meaning in Life After a Cancer Diagnosis
Finding meaning in life is important for maintaining physical and mental well-being. Obtaining a deeper understanding of activities that patients with cancer find meaningful is essential in improving cancer care and increasing meaning in life in these individuals. The sample of the present study consisted of patients with cancer ( N = 61) who reported their levels of financial strain and listed types of activities that they found most meaningful …
State mental health infrastructure, personality, and politics of shelter-in-place
Cultivating community-based participatory research (CBPR) to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced food service workers to experience complex decisions about health and safety, stress and mental health concerns, and longer-term concerns. Challenging health decisions included attempting to avoid an airborne infectious illness when employers were mainly only concerned with droplet precautions and trying to decide protocols for testing and isolation without clear guidance, free tests, or paid sick leave. Key menta…
Attending Patient Funerals as a Follow-Up Practice of Pediatric Oncologists
This study assessed pediatric oncology professionals’ attitudes and attendance at patient funerals. Many professionals endorsed some level of agreement that funeral attendance respects professional boundaries. Nearly all pediatric oncology professionals (89.2%) reported attending a patient funeral at least once, a rate significantly higher than estimates in other specialties ( p <.001). Attitudes and rates of attendance were slightly higher in ol…
The TRIBE model
Cultural Differences Predict Palliative Care Development Across the United States
Across the United States, some regions demonstrate greater readiness to adopt palliative care than others. This geographic variation in access and utilization may be due to cultural variation in "tightness" and "looseness," which can be understood as the relative strength and enforcement of social norms and behavioral constraint within a culture. The present study examined the influence of cultural tightness-looseness on access to palliative care…
Development and Validation of the Delaying Gratification Inventory in Japanese ( DGI ‐J)
We often face situations requiring us to exert self‐control, wherein we set goals and invest plenty of effort in achieving them, but are also disturbed by urges to give in to temptations. Since self‐control is associated with outcomes across various domains, it is important to assess individual domain‐specific differences in self‐control to further understand how it develops and contributes to successful outcomes. The present study aimed to devel…
Understanding and Addressing Mental Health Disparities and Stigma in Serious Illness and Palliative Care
Patients receiving palliative care experience stigma associated with their illness, personal identity, and healthcare utilization. These stigmas can occur at any stage of the disease process. Varying stigmas combine to cause palliative care patients to feel misunderstood, contribute to treatment barriers, and further negative stereotypes held by clinicians. Stigma surrounding palliative care patients stems from complex intersections of varied acc…
Psychology (14 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Developmental psychology (7 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Clinical Psychology (6 obras) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (6 obras) · Psychiatry (6 obras) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (4 obras) · Clinical Psychology (4 obras) · Internal Medicine (4 obras)