TY - JOUR
T1 - The buffering effect of hope on clinicians' behavior
T2 - A test in pediatric primary care
AU - Tennen, H.
AU - Cloutier, M.M.
AU - Wakefield, D.B.
AU - Hall, C.B.
AU - Brazil, K.
N1 - Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2009/5/1
Y1 - 2009/5/1
N2 - Although trait hope is thought to motivate goal-directed actions in the face of impediments, few studies have directly examined hope's role in overcoming obstacles, and none have done so while accounting for related goal constructs. We describe a study of 127 pediatric primary care providers who over the course of a year were asked to identify new cases of asthma and confirm previously diagnosed active disease by completing for each of their patients a brief survey validated for this purpose. These clinicians also completed measures of hope, self-efficacy, conscientiousness, and perceived obstacles to implementing a pediatric asthma management program. As predicted by hope theory, the agency component of hope buffered clinicians from perceived obstacles by facilitating the identification of asthma cases among high-hope clinicians in the face of obstacles. This buffering effect remained after controlling for self-efficacy and conscientiousness. We discuss the study findings in terms of current theories of goal-directed behavior and implications for delivering hope-related interventions, and we offer a testable hypothesis regarding when agency and pathways thinking facilitate goal-related behavior.
AB - Although trait hope is thought to motivate goal-directed actions in the face of impediments, few studies have directly examined hope's role in overcoming obstacles, and none have done so while accounting for related goal constructs. We describe a study of 127 pediatric primary care providers who over the course of a year were asked to identify new cases of asthma and confirm previously diagnosed active disease by completing for each of their patients a brief survey validated for this purpose. These clinicians also completed measures of hope, self-efficacy, conscientiousness, and perceived obstacles to implementing a pediatric asthma management program. As predicted by hope theory, the agency component of hope buffered clinicians from perceived obstacles by facilitating the identification of asthma cases among high-hope clinicians in the face of obstacles. This buffering effect remained after controlling for self-efficacy and conscientiousness. We discuss the study findings in terms of current theories of goal-directed behavior and implications for delivering hope-related interventions, and we offer a testable hypothesis regarding when agency and pathways thinking facilitate goal-related behavior.
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U2 - 10.1521/jscp.2009.28.5.554
DO - 10.1521/jscp.2009.28.5.554
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67749108631
SN - 0736-7236
VL - 28
SP - 554
EP - 576
JO - Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
JF - Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
IS - 5
ER -