Situated Trust in a Physician: Patient Health Characteristics and Trust in Physician Confidentiality
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Most patients trust their physicians uniformly across several situations, which challenges prevailing perspectives on interpersonal trust that view it as situated (placed upon a specific person for a specific task within a situation). We suggest this finding is an artifact of undertheorizing about how situations shape patients’ trust. We develop claims explaining how patients’ devalued health characteristics raise situation-specific concerns. We find that the severity and chronic severity of body weight and depressive symptoms are associated with lower trust in physician confidentiality-–-the expectation that a physician uses personal health information appropriately-–but not trust for other tasks.
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- Authors
- Campos-Castillo, C., & Anthony, D.
- Affiliations
- Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Dartmouth College (US)
- ORCID
- Anthony, Denise
- Venue
- The Sociological Quarterly
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2019-01-11
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 559-582
- ISSN
- 0038-0253 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-8525
- OpenAlex
- W2911018536
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 2.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Sociological Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Wisconsin Longitudinal Study Pilot Grant.
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health, Medicine and Society
- Keywords
- trust in physicians, physician confidentiality, interpersonal trust, body weight, depressive symptoms, chronic disease, health information disclosure, physician-patient relationship
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