TEST OF A CAUSAL MODEL TO EXPLAIN NURSING PERSONNEL'S INTENTIONS TO HELP: ATTRIBUTIONS AS MEDIATORS OF HELPING NURSING HOME RESIDENTS RELEARN SELF-CARE SKILLS.
Contributors: Indiana University.
Published: 1987
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of the study was to test a theoretical causal model to explain nurses' intentions to help nursing home residents relearn self-care skills. The causal model was based upon extensions to Batson's (1975f) attribution-mediation model of helping by professional helpers. Theoretical relationships were proposed between nurses' intentions to help and their attributions, affects, role orientations, perceptions of opportunity to help and available information about the nursing home resident in need of help. Hypotheses were generated from the theory in order to understand the correlations between the causal model variables.

The sample was comprised of 147 nurses (56 RNs and 91 LPNs) from 29 randomly selected nursing homes. Each subject answered a questionnaire which contained vignettes about two residents who did not perform either dressing or feeding themselves after having had a stroke. Information about the residents' age, gender, and length of stay at the nursing home was counterbalanced between the two vignettes.

Data were analyzed for consistency with the model using the LISREL VI computer program. Hypotheses were tested for significance of the correlations (beta values) at the.05 level.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-09, Section: B, page: 2603.

Thesis (ED.D.)--INDIANA UNIVERSITY, 1987.

School code: 0093.