What this then means is that the influence of personal responsibility needs to be mediated via the person's social context, as illustrated in Figure 1.
Our findings mirror those of other studies, which also found that the influence of family responsibilities and concerns for personal safety were important predictors of WTR for duty in the event of a disaster [2, 11 16].
The influence of family responsibilities on the decision to withdraw from clinical practice was particularly felt by female physicians in our study, as found by others [ 8].
Hence, social influence and diffusion of responsibility are fundamental processes underlying the bystander effect during the early steps of the decision-making process.
Individual relationships with family members and patients' own definitions of who is a family member have also been shown to influence the level of responsibility one feels to disclose.
Country of ICU location influenced the profile of responsibility for all decisions.
Dozens of actors, exercising different kinds of power, vastly complicate the effort to find a better balance of influence and responsibility.
This balance was influenced by the amount of responsibility they were being given and took on and by the relation with their supervisor.
As long as we continue to exclude the influence and responsibility of fathers, such studies on child care and rearing will be short-sighted and misguided.
This chapter discusses three dimensions to the changing distribution of influence and responsibility in disaster risk governance.
