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Citation |
Carifio J, Lanza M. Work 1994; 4(1): 56-67. |
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Affiliation |
Edith Nourse Rogers Veterans Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 1994, IOS Press) |
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24440849 |
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Abstract |
This study compared all possible orders of responding to three vignettes describing incidents between a male patient and a female nurse in which the nurse is mildly assaulted, severely assaulted, or verbally abused by the patient (the control condition). Subjects were 32 female senior-year nursing students and 28 practicing nurses. It was found that response levels to a given vignette could predict a respondent's response to the other vignettes. Also, a significant "bench-marking" effect was found: if a subject responded to the mild assault vignette first, the subject's overall response pattern best fit the general nonlinear assignment-of-blame pattern observed, but if the subject responded to the severe assault or control vignette first, this vignette set a bench mark for responding from which the subject's subsequent responses did not deviate greatly, which slightly distorted the subject's V-shaped nonlinear response pattern. Language: en |