Affective Forecasting and Advance Care Planning
Anticipating Quality of Life in Future Health Statuses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4227269 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laraine Winter (Thomas Jefferson University), Miriam S Mo, Miriam S Moss (Arcadia University), Christine Hoffman (Philadelphia Corporation for Aging, USA) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 447-456 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1359105309102201 |
| PMID | 19293306 |
| OpenAlex | W2040972128 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 42 |
That sicker people evaluate quality of life in future health status more positively, compared to healthier people, is viewed as an instance of affective forecasting error and explained by Prospect Theory, which holds that two prospects (poor health vs death) are more distinguishable when they are imminent than when distant. In a sample of 230 elderly people, we tested whether life in nine health scenarios would be more acceptable to less healthy individuals than to healthier ones. An interaction between current health status and health scenario supported the relative acceptability of poor-health prospects to sicker individuals, confirming the hypothesis
Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Quality of life (healthcare · Sample (material · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Medicine · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Gerontology
Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine
Associations Between End-of-Life Discussions, Patient Mental Health, Medical Care Near Death, and Caregiver Bereavement Adjustment
The utility of different health states as perceived by the general public
Prospection
Advances in prospect theory
Prospect Theory
Studies of Illness in the Aged
Enough
Whose quality of life? A commentary exploring discrepancies between health state evaluations of patients and the general public
Choices, values, and frames
Valuation of Life
The Stability of Older Adults' Judgments of Fates Better and Worse Than Death
Decisions and revisions
Response to Lenert and Kaplan
Associations Between Health Status and Utilities Implications for Policy
Assessment of Older People
Integrating response shift into health-related quality of life research
Focalism
The effect of normative beliefs on anticipated emotions
Immune neglect
Ethnicity and attitudes towards life sustaining technology
The role of adaptation to disability and disease in health state valuation
Current health and preferences for life-prolonging treatments
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |