Attribution of Illness

Another Double Standard

Bibliographic Data

ID2545557
AuthorsJohn D Campbell (0000-0002-2931-9643), John Campbell (0000-0002-6752-3493, corresponding author)
Year1975
Volume16
Issue1
Pages114
Publication date1975-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Health and Social Behavior (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1465 • E-ISSN: 2150-6000
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2137004
PMID1184932
OpenAlexW2330110576
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited2

Mothers and children made similar differentiations amongsymptoms. But whether individuals construed conditions as indicating illness depended both on who made the interpretation and who was being judged as healthy or sick. Mothers attributed illness more to children than to themselves; children, more to mothers than to themselves. Variationsfollowed a developmental pattern: mothers, more than children, and older children, more than younger, saw sickness in the other more readily than in the self This resulted from a shifting perspective on the self Socioeconomic status influenced symptom evaluation by mothers but had no similar effect on children's assessments. Illness attribution was a strong predictor of health-relevant action

Attribution · Developmental psychology · Environmental health · Health care · Illness behavior · MEDLINE · Perspective (graphical) · Population · Psychiatry · Sick child · Sick role · Socioeconomic status · Sociology of health and illness · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Social Psychology · Pediatrics

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