Religious orientation and life aspirations.

The effects of religiosity on well-being appear to depend on religious orientation, with intrinsic orientation being related to positive outcomes and extrinsic orientation being related to neutral or negative outcomes. It is not clear, however, why intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity has the relationships they do. Self-determination theory may provide a useful framework of intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations that may help to answer this question.

Women in academic medicine: a report of focus groups and questionnaires, with conjoint analysis.

Background: The percentage of women graduating from U.S. medical schools has increased dramatically over the past 30 years, but the distribution of women and men across faculty ranks in academic medical centers has remained nearly unchanged.

Optimizing the delivery of patient and physician satisfaction: a conjoint analysis approach.

This article suggests that, in evaluating and designing health care unit programs, conjoint analysis is superior to the conventional survey-research approach. Conjoint analysis can suggest unit designs that will optimize patient (or physician) satisfaction, while still controlling for unit profitability and other constraints. This article discusses the conjoint approach and illustrates its use in the design of an obstetrical unit.