Abstract
This study concerns midwives' obedience/conformity to direction from a senior person. We sought to identify whether midwives just went along with what a midwife at management level suggested, or instead altered their views to match. In the first condition, a postal Social Influence Scale-Midwifery (SIS-M) measured and scored 209 midwives' private responses to 10 clinical questions. In a second condition, a senior midwife successfully influenced 60 of these midwives to alter their SIS-M decisions to agree with her suggested correct responses. In a third condition, a postal condition again measured the midwives private SIS-M responses. The aim was to elicit whether the midwives' simply complied with the senior midwife's suggestions during interview or actually changed their opinions to match hers.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 180-190 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 May 2010 |
Keywords
- social influence
- midwives
- obedience
- conformity