Enacted Goal Attention in Family Conversations about End-of-life Health Decisions

摘要: Most extant research on end-of-life communication in families has been based the assumption that more is better communication. We used a multiple goals theoretical perspective to demonstrate quality of about decisions matters. Members 121 older parent/adult child dyads (N = 242) engaged an elicited conversation health choices and reported their assessments conversation. Using multilevel linear modeling, we found outside ratings person's (i.e., attention task, identity, relational goals) as well partner's were positively associated with conversational satisfaction hopefulness negatively hurt feelings distancing.