Patient Responsibility For Illness

Associated Documents (3)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Whiting, John W.M.Sorcery, sin and the superego: a cross-cultural study of some mechanisms of social control
Whiting, John W.M.Child training and personality: a cross-cultural study

Associated Hypotheses (7)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Whiting, John W.M."[There is] interaction between family structure and age of weaning [on the] . . . extent to which a person who gets sick blames himself (i.e., patient responsibility--an indirect measure of guilt assumption)" (164, 165)
Whiting, John W.M."Societies with a high socialization anxiety tend to be higher on the index of patient responsibility [patient blames illness on himself] than do societies which are low in average socialization anxiety" (234)
Whiting, John W.M."Where the parents play a less important role in the socialization of their children, the children will tend to develop weaker superegos than where the parents play a more important role" (246)
Whiting, John W.M."The strength of guilt feelings characterizing a society, as measured by the custom potential of patient responsibility for illness, will be measured by . . . the relative importance of relatives as secondary agents of socialization" (248, 251)
Whiting, John W.M."Societies high in initial nurturance [dependence drive] should tend more strongly to blame illness on the patient himself than societies which are low in initial nurturance of the child" (238)
Whiting, John W.M."Relative importance of love-oriented techniques of punishment by parents will be positively correlated with the importance of patient responsibility in the explanation of illness" (244)

Associated OCMs

  1. theory of disease