Personal condition but social cure: Agentic ingroups elevate well-being in chronically ill patients through perceptions of personal control.

Susanne Relke Immo Fritsche Torsten Masson Anne-Kathrin KleineKatharina ThienLisa von GlahnKatja Leuteritz Diana Richter

Published in: British journal of health psychology (2021)

Ingroup agency is a boundary condition for the control-based pathway of the social cure effect supporting the model of group-based control. This has practical implications for clinical interventions with chronically ill patients.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
healthcare
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
primary care
mental health
drug administration