Psychology: Techniques and Application

Psychology: Techniques and Application ›› 2022, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (4): 193-201.

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The Effect of Meta-dehumanization on Aggressive Tendency in Medical Interaction: Patients’ Perspective

  

  • Online:2022-04-01 Published:2022-05-23

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Meta-dehumanization is one kind of perception that one’s own group is perceived by another as less than fully human. In medical interaction, being dehumanized by doctors raises patients’ meta-dehumanization which includes subtle and blatant meta-dehumanization, patients’ meta-dehumanization causes the aggressive tendency against the doctors and even develops into aggressive behaviors. when being subtly dehumanized, patients with higher self-esteem tends to more aggressive than those with lower self-esteem; moreover, patients’ blatant meta-dehumanization would provoke social identity threat, generating a desire to reciprocate that hostility toward the offending outgroup and resulting in out-group dehumanization and aggressive tendency against doctors. By building a humane image of medical staff, enhancing the patient's humane experience, and strengthening positive humane contact between medical staff and patients, the influence of patients' meta-dehumanizing beliefs on aggressive tendencies can be suppressed and potential doctor-patient conflicts reduced.

Key words: doctor-patient interaction, meta-dehumanization, aggressive tendency, subtle meta-dehumanization, blatant meta-dehumanization

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