Shame in Physician-Patient interactions: Patient perspectives

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 325-334

  Harris, Christine R ^a   Darby, Ryan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951698695     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01973530903316922     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. American Medical Association. (2008). Physician characteristics and distribution in the U.S., 2008. Chicago: Author. Retrieved April 22, 2009, from http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-people/member-groups-sections/women-physicians-congress/statistics-history/table-1-physicians-gender-excludes-students.shtml
2. Birnbaum, M. H. (1999). Testing critical properties of decision making on the internet. Psychological Science, 10, 399-407.
3. Braithwaite, J. (1989). Crime, shame, and reintegration. Melbourne, Australia: Cambridge University Press.
4. Coffaro, F., & Harris, C. R. (2009). The higher you are, the farther you fall: The effects of power on embarrassment. Manuscript submitted for publication.
5. Cohen, S., Underwood, L., & Gottlieb, B. (Eds.). (2000). Social support measurement and intervention. New York: Oxford University Press.
6. Consedine, N. S., Krivoshekova, Y. S., & Harris, C. R. (2007). Bodily embarrassment and judgment concern as separable factors in the measurement of medical embarrassment: Psychometric development and links to treatment-seeking outcomes. British Journal of Health Psychology, 12, 439-462.
7. Consedine, N. S., Magai, C., Krivoshekova, Y. S., Ryzewicz, L., & Neugut, A. I. (2004). Fear, anxiety, worry, and breast cancer screening behavior: A critical review. Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers, & Prevention, 13, 1-10.
8. Consedine, N. S., &Pizarro, D. A. (2008). Ugh, that is nasty! A critical review of disgust's role in health and health behavior. Manuscript under review.
9. Cutler, D. M., Glaeser, E. L., & Rosen, A. (2007). Is the US population behaving healthier? (NBER Working Paper No. W13013). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Retreived April, 2009 from http://www.nber.org/papers/w13013.
10. Dickerson, S. S., Gruenewald, T. L., & Kemeny, M. E. (2004). When the social self is threatened: Shame, physiology, and health. Journal of Personality, 72, 1192-1216.
11. Diefenbach, M. A., Miller, S. M., & Daly, M. B. (1999). Specific worry about breast cancer predicts mammography use in women at risk for breast and ovarian cancer. Health Psychology, 18, 532-536.
12. Gosling, S. D., Vazire, S., Srivastava, S., & John, O. P. (2004). Should we trust web-based studies? A comparative analysis of six preconceptions about Internet questionnaires. American Psychologist, 59, 93-104.
13. Harris, C. R. (2006). Embarrassment: A form of social pain. American Scientist, 94, 524-533.
14. Harris, C. R., & Consedine, N. S. (eds.) (2008). Emotion researcher: Special issue on emotions and Health (vol. 23, iss. 1).
15. Helgeson, V. S., Novak, S. A., Lepore, S. J., & Eton, D. T. (2004). Spousal social control effort: relations to health behavior and well-being among men with prostate cancer. Journal of Social and Persona Relationships, 21, 53-68.
16. House, J. S., Landis, K. R., & Umberson, D. (1988). Social relationships and health. Science, 29, 540-545.
17. Hughes, M., & Gove, W. R. (1981). Living alone, social integration, and mental health. American Journal of Sociology, 87, 48-74.
18. Krantz, J. H., & Dalal, R. (2000). Validity of web-based psychological research. In M. Birnbaum (Ed.), Psychological experiments on the Internet (pp. 35-60). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
19. Krause, N., Goldenhar, L., Liang, J., Jay, G., & Maeda, D. (1993). Stress and exercise among the Japanese elderly. Social Science and Medicine, 36, 1429-1441.
20. Lazare, A. M. (1997). Shame, humiliation, and stigma in the medical interview. In M. Lansky & A. P. Morrison (Eds.), The widening scope of shame (pp. 383-396). Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.
21. Levine, S., Ancill, R. J., & Roberts, A. P. (1989). Assessment of suicide risk by computer-delivered self-rating questionnaire: Preliminary findings. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 80, 216-220.
22. Lewis, M. A., & Rook, K. S. (1999). Social control in personal relationships: Impact on health behaviors and psychological distress. Health Psychology, 18, 63-71.
23. Locke, S. D., & Gilbert, B. O. (1995). Method of psychological assessment, self-disclosure, and experiential differences: A study of computer, questionnaire, and interview assessment formats. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 10, 255-263.
24. Magrane, D., Lang, J., & Alexander, H. (2005). Women in U.S. academic medicine statistics and medical school benchmarking 2004-2005. Washington, DC: Association of American Medical Colleges. Retrieved April 22, 2009, from http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-people/member-groups-sections/women-physicians-congress/statistics-history/table-2-women-medical-school-applicants.shtml.
25. Mayne, T. J. (2001). Emotions and health. In T. J. Mayne & G. A. Bonanno (Eds.), Emotions: Current issues and future directions (pp. 361-397). New York: Guilford.
26. McGraw, K. O., Tew, M. D., & Williams, J. E. (2000). The integrity of web-delivered experiments: Can you trust the data? Psychological Science, 11, 502-506.
27. Musch, J., Broder, A., & Klauer, K. C. (2001). Improving survey research on the world-wide web using the randomized response technique. In U.-D. Reips & M. Bosnjak (Eds.), Dimensions of Internet science (pp. 179-192). Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science.
28. Orleans, C. T., George, L. K., Houpt, J. L., & Brodie, K. H. (1985). Health promotion in primary care: A survey of US family practitioners. Preventive Medicine, 14, 636-647.
29. Reis, H. T., Clark, M. S., Pereira Gray, D. J., Tsai, F., Brown, J. B., Stewart, M., et al. (2008). Measuring responsiveness in the therapeutic relationship: A patient perspective. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 30, 339-348.
30. Roberts, R. O., Rhodes, T., Panser, L. A., Girman, C. J., Chute, C. G., Oesterling, J. E., et al. (1994). Natural history of prostatism: Worry and embarrassment from urinary symptoms and health care-seeking behavior. Adult Urology, 43, 621-628.
31. Rook, K. S., Thuras, P. D., & Lewis, M. A. (1990). Social control, health risk-taking, and psychological distress among the elderly. Psychology and Aging, 5, 327-334.
32. Schulman, K. A., Berlin, J. A., Harless, W., Kerner, J. F., Sistrunk, S., & Gersh, B. J. (1999). The effects of race and sex physicians' recommendations for cardiac catheterization. New England Journal of Medicine, 340, 618-626.
33. Stanton, J. M., & Weiss, E. M. (2002). Online panels for social science research: An introduction to the Study Response Project (Tech. Rep. No. 13001). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University, School of Information Studies.
34. Tangney, J. P. (1994). The mixed legacy of the superego: Adaptive and maladaptive aspects of shame and guilt. In J. M. Masling & R. F. Borenstein (Eds.), Empirical perspectiveness on object relations theory (pp. 1-28). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
35. Tangney, J. P., & Dearing, R. L. (2002). Shame and guilt. New York: Guilford.
36. Tangney, J. P., Wagner, P. E., Hill-Barlow, D., Marschall, D. E., & Gramzow, R. (1996). Relation of shame and guilt to constructive versus destructive responses to anger across the lifespan. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 797-809.
37. Tucker, J. S. (2002). Health-related social control within older adults' relationships. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 57B, 387-395.
38. Umberson, D. (1987). Family status and health behaviors: Social control as a dimension of social integration. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 28, 306-319.
39. Wechsler, H., Levine, S., Idelson, R. K., Rohman, M., & Taylor, J. (1983). The physician's role in health promotion-A survey of primary-care practitioners. New England Journal of Medicine, 308, 97-100.
40. Wechsler, H., Levine, S., Idelson, R. K., Schor, E. L., & Coakley, E. (1996). The physician's role in health promotion revisited-A survey of primary care practitioners. New England Journal of Medicine, 334,996-998.
41. Zahn-Waxler, C., & Robinson, J. (1995). Empathy and guilt: Early origins of feelings of responsibility. In J. P. Tangney & K. Fischer (Eds.), Self-conscious emotions: The psychology of shame, guilt, embarrassment, and pride (pp. 143-173). New York: Guilford.