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Seeking admission to a veterans hospital: Impression management
Author(s) -
Frankel Alan,
Johnson Claudia A.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197704)33:2<519::aid-jclp2270330240>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - psychology , impression management , impression , resistance (ecology) , psychiatry , hospital admission , clinical psychology , medicine , social psychology , ecology , advertising , business , biology
Psychiatric and medical patients can present a self‐image consistent with their personal goals of early discharge or of lengthy hospitalization. Impression management to gain hospitalization may be a different process. A 2 × 2 × 2 ANACOVA tested whether type of problem (medical or psychiatric), first or muliple admission, or path of least resistance had any effect on impression management to gain hospitalization. Results were generally negative. The only significant variable was chronological age. Older patients endorsed more items flattering the hospital. These results were independent of degree of illness as judged by the patients and by physicians.