Luppo Kuillman

Table of contents Chapter 1: General Introduction 9 1.1 Background of sampling Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners 10 1.2 A plethora of Models on Ethical Decision-making 11 1.3 James Rest’s Four Component Model of Moral Behavior 12 1.4 Moral disengagement: theory and measurement. 18 1.5 The concept of Behavioral Control targeted at Preventing Harm 20 1.6 Outline of this doctoral thesis 20 Chapter 2: Re-assessing the validity of the Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire (MSQ): Two new scales for moral deliberation and paternalism. 27 Chapter 3: Moral reasoning explained by personality traits and moral disengagement: a study among Dutch nurse practitioners and physician assistants 55 Chapter 4: Facilitating and motivating factors for reporting reprehensible conduct in care: A study among nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the Netherlands. 83 Chapter 5: The predictive values of a Deliberative and a Paternalistic Attitude towards two situations of Moral Conflict: a study among Dutch Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants 107 Chapter 6: Summarizing Discussion and Future Research Directions 129 6.1 Background of the conducted PhD research 130 6.2 Summary of main findings 130 6.3 Strengths and limitations 132 6.4 Practical implications and future research 134 6.5 Conclusions 137 Chapter 7: Summary in Dutch 141 7.1 Achtergrond van het promotieonderzoek 142 7.2 Samenvatting van de belangrijkste bevindingen 143 7.3 Conclusie 145