conclusions hospital managers need to discover better ways to promote safety and health programs for their staff according to nurses’ area of work and their type of units. they should also encourage greater levels of participation in safety-enhancing initiatives in the hospital’s ethical climate, especially in the areas of nurses’ perceptions of their physician colleagues, and for nurses with a...

BACKGROUND The influences on the psychological well-being of heart failure (HF) patients have received limited attention. Illness perceptions are a specific set of cognitive representations that have been shown to predict health-related outcomes in other patient groups. This study sought to explore the role of illness perceptions in the psychological well-being of HF patients by creating a prof...

Title of Document: MATERNAL AND PATERNAL PERCEPTIONS OF HOSTILITY TOWARD THEIR ADOLESCENTS: LINKS TO ADOLESCENT PEER-REPORTED SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR. Heidi Marie Butler, Master of Science, 2008 Directed By: Professor Jude Cassidy, Psychology The goal of the present study was to examine the links between parental perceptions of hostility and peer-reported adolescent social accepta...

OBJECTIVES To examine how perceptions of parental responsibility for diabetes management are associated with age, pubertal status, adolescents' self-efficacy, and parental perceptions of adolescents' efficacy, and if parental responsibility is associated with better metabolic control as a function of adolescents' self-efficacy and parental perceptions of adolescents' efficacy. METHODS Questio...

This study examines a key component of environmental risk communication; trust and credibility. The study was conducted in two parts. In the first part, six hypotheses regarding the perceptions and determinants of trust and credibility were tested against survey data. The hypotheses were supported by the data. The most important hypothesis was that perceptions of trust and credibility are depen...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether adolescents' and parents' perceptions of patient-centered communication (PCC) with the physician may be associated with aspects of patient empowerment (e.g., perceptions of competence) and diabetes management (i.e., adherence and HbA1c). METHODS One hundred and ninety adolescents with type 1 diabetes and their parents rated perceptions of PCC following a clinic vi...

This study investigated communicative and relational aspects of the grandparent–grandchild relationship that lead to perceptions of age salience and shared family identity with the grandparent. The perceptions represent manifestations of interand intragroup levels of categorization in dealing with the other family member. The association between these group-oriented categorizations and percepti...

This study investigated communicative and relational aspects of the grandparent–grandchild relationship that lead to perceptions of age salience and shared family identity with the grandparent. The perceptions represent manifestations of interand intragroup levels of categorization in dealing with the other family member. The association between these group-oriented categorizations and percepti...