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Self‐Responsibility in Health Care/Promotion: Motivational Factors
Author(s) -
Alderman M. Kay
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1980.tb03874.x
Subject(s) - health promotion , intervention (counseling) , psychology , moral responsibility , social responsibility , promotion (chess) , health care , self care , health education , social psychology , nursing , public relations , medicine , public health , political science , psychiatry , politics , law
This paper explores motivational factors at play in self‐responsibility in health care and promotion. If people do not take responsibility for their health status, is it because they can not or will not? “Can” refers to the ability or skill to do something, while “will” refers to intention and effort. Each of these factors are analyzed in terms of their role as a cause of behavior in self‐responsibility for the health status. Educational intervention to motivate self‐responsibility is suggested as well as empirical research in how people attribute health outcomes.