Anxiety, information, interpersonal impacts, and adjustment to a stressful health care situation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6204705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen M Auerbach (Virginia Commonwealth University, corresponding author), Michael F Martelli, Louis G Mercuri (0000-0002-5061-4129) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1284-1296 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.44.6.1284 |
| PMID | 6875806 |
| OpenAlex | W2018315561, W4243733189 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 6 |
Forty patients scheduled for dental extraction surgery were given either specific or general preparatory information, and this information was presented in either a personalized or relatively impersonal fashion using nonverbal cues. Changes in state anxiety over the course of the experiment were accounted for by individual differences in the Dental Anxiety Scale. The most important determinant of adjustment during surgery was the congruence between specificity of information received and individual differences in preference for information as measured by the Information subscale of the Krantz Health Opinion Survey (KHOS; Krantz, Baum, & Wideman, 1980). Findings with the KHOS and the Dental Anxiety Scale are examples of the growing importance of situation-specific personality-trait measures. The finding that high levels of presurgery anxiety are associated with poor adjustment is discussed in terms of Janis's (1958) model. Patients' perceptions of information-giver hostility and dominance were also significantly (inversely) related to adjustment; the differential impact of informational versus interpersonal variables is discussed in terms of moderating characteristics of health care settings.
Anxiety · Developmental psychology · Dominance (genetics · Hostility · Interpersonal communication · Interpersonal relationship · Perception · Personality · Psychiatry · Scale (ratio · Social approval · Trait · Trait anxiety · Clinical Psychology · Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques · Empathy and Medical Education · Health and Well-being Studies · Medical Education and Admissions · Psychology · Social Psychology
Intervenção psicológica em cirurgia
Do Patients Want Control over their Own Health Care? A Review of Measures, Findings, and Research Issues
The Krantz Health Opinion Survey
Effectiveness of a Videotaped Behavioral Intervention for Dental Anxiety
Shared Decision-Making and Evidence-Based Practice
La «ACN de JP» y sus primeras campañas de mítines sociales (1909-1910)
Social-Cognitive Processes in Behavioral Health
Appraisal of Desire for Control over Healthcare
Integrating measurement of control and affiliation in studies of physician-patient interaction
Contribution of emotional and instrumental response processes in adaptation to surgery
Effect of information about a potentially stressful situation on responses to stress impact
Recovery from surgery, with and without preparatory instruction, for three coping styles
Reduction of psychological stress in surgical patients
Effects of preparatory information about sensations, threat of pain, and attention on cold pressor distress
Assessment of preferences for self-treatment and information in health care
| Citations per year | 0.32 |
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| Citation span | 1989 - 2017 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |