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Domain | State | Characteristic | Possible motive for going to PED |
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Goals and means | Telic | Focusing on goals and achievement, with a serious attitude | Seeking quick solution to the problem (quick diagnosis and treatment) |
Paratelic | Focusing on the situation or the activity itself and on present moment, with a playful attitude | Having seen how PEDs work on the TV and feeling curiosity about it |
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Rules and constraints | Conformist | Following social codes, rules, and laws; showing respect or obedience; and adopting a conventional attitude | Believing that PED is the best place to go: PED has the best physicians and the best equipment |
Negativist | Opposing social expectations and rules; expressing hostility or dissidence; and adopting an unconventional attitude | Considering that the family physician’s diagnosis was wrong |
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Transactions or exchanges with other people, things, and situations | Mastery | Trying to dominate people, things, or situations | Realizing that the situation was escaping one’s control |
Sympathy | Feeling affection toward other people or things | Feeling strong compassion for one’s suffering child |
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Relationships with other people, things, and situations | Autocentric | Being the focus of others’ concerns and interests | Wanting to be considered as a good parent by child and others |
Intra-autic | Focusing on one’s own concerns and interests | Feeling personally very anxious and worried |
Allocentric | Identifying with and focusing on the needs and interests of others | Wishing that child’s high fever and suffering would be reduced |
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