Porter Eileen J, Lasiter Sue
MU Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri-Columbia, 65211, USA.
Care Manag J. 2004 Fall;5(3):145-50. doi: 10.1891/cmaj.2004.5.3.145.
There is little literature about the relationships of older women who live alone and the paid nonprofessional helpers who assist them. Studies of interpersonal trust have focused on the vulnerability of the trusting person and actions of the trusted person. The actions of the trusting person, or empirical indicators of trust, have had little attention. Our purpose was to describe the actions of older women that were indicative of their trust in nonprofessional home-care helpers. In a descriptive phenomenological study of 25 older widows, a subsample of 11 women who had hired nonprofessional helpers reported actions toward the helpers that we deemed markers of trust. The overarching marker of trust was keeping my eyes off of the helper, with five subsidiary markers, including allowing the helper to enter my house at will. Findings extend empirical knowledge about trust, raise new questions about interpersonal theories of trust, and suggest further areas of study.
关于独居老年女性与帮助她们的非专业有偿护理人员之间的关系，相关文献较少。人际信任的研究主要集中在信任者的脆弱性以及被信任者的行为上。而信任者的行为，即信任的实证指标，却很少受到关注。我们的目的是描述老年女性表现出对非专业家庭护理人员信任的行为。在一项针对25名老年寡妇的描述性现象学研究中，11名雇佣了非专业护理人员的女性子样本报告了她们对护理人员的行为，我们将这些行为视为信任的标志。信任的首要标志是不盯着护理人员，还有五个次要标志，包括允许护理人员随意进入我的家。研究结果扩展了关于信任的实证知识，提出了关于人际信任理论的新问题，并指出了进一步的研究领域。
