Planned helping Flashcards
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types of planned helping
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- sustained volunteerism (working for charity etc, observable)
- blood/organ donation (organ can be living or posthumous, anonymous or known)
- sustained financial donations (observable or private)
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Omoto and Snyder 2002 volunteer process model
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- considers the individual and the organisation as well as the social system
- also how these relate to each other and influence experiences of the helper and the consequences for the helper
- so what makes people volunteer? what are these people like? what do they experience when volunteering? what influence does the organisation have on their experience?
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Functional (motivational) model of volunteerism (clary and snyder 1999)
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- for the individuals motivations are key and these motivations act to initiate, direct and sustain action
- different people in the same volunteer roles have different motives, this is called the function-action plurality
- sustained volunteerism depends on matching the individuals motivations to situations that meet their motivational needs (matching hypothesis)
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functions served by volunteering
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- values e.g. to help others (true altruism)
- understanding e.g. gain experience
- enhancement e.g. confidence (egoism)
- career e.g. get involved in a career path (egoism)
- social e.g people i know volunteer here (reputation building)
- protective e.g. to reduce negative feelins such as guilt or to escape own troubles (negative state relief)
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empathy and volunteering
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- those who score high in empathy volunteer for longer
- but so do those who find the work more satisfying
- empathic concern: preference for helping in sympathy inducing situations e.g. working with children or animals. empathic concern predicts helping in sympathy contexts (Davis 1999)
- avoiding personal distress: preference for avoiding distress inducing e.g. the terminally ill, rape victims. personal distress predicts avoiding helping in distressing contexts (Davis 1999)
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the big 5 and planned helping
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- metanalysis by lodi-smith & roberts 2007
- significant affect of conscientiousess - makes sense a people need to be dedicated, methodical and organised
- ## few research used agreeableness which is surprising
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blood donation background
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- can be single or repeated
- costly to self, benefits a stranger
- external reward not present
- open to free-riding
- understanding why people donate blood relies on understanding the mechanisms of biology, economics and psychology of altruism
- Ferguson 2015 calls this the Mechanism of Altruism (MOA) approach
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what factors influence blood donation?
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- personality
- motivations
- social norms
- warm glow (economics) - it makes you feel good
- costly signals (sexual selection signal of health and kindness)
- incentives (e.g. free health check)
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blood donation and conscientiousness
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- ferguson 2006
- high in c who have been donating for several years are likely to donate more frequently and for loger periods of time (but might just reflect organisational skills)
- so a seems to be linked to altruism in economic games but c seems important for actually following through and doing it regularly
- ferguson & bibby 2002 show intentions only important first/occasional donors but not for experienced donors, (5 or more) so its like habit kicks in
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dutch donor insight project
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- TPB, self efficacy, trust, altruism, moral and social norms
- 15,000 donors aged 18 to 70
- identified 3 motivational factors
- reluctant altruism - donation is important and should happen but i dont trust otherss to do it
- warmglow: feel good, avoid guilt and be seen as good
- pure altruism: unconditional helping
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conditional cooperatio and reluctant altruism
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- these people will cooperate more when others dont, when enough start to free ride they will do it
- makes a sort of hump shape in own contribution/other group members contribution graphs
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warm glow and bood donation
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- hedonism (free cup of tea, biscuit etc)
- benevolence, makes e feel good
- kinship - help if my family needs aa donation
- altruism, giving blood saves lives
- use economic games to assess rather than self-report as not biased
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warm glow charity dictator game
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- fuerguson 2015
- blood donors give more money than non-donors in warm glow tasks but not in standard charity dictator games
- so looks like blood donors are generally warm glow givers
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blood donation studies implications for interventions
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- either a positive (what it can do for you)
- or negative (stopping diseases etc)
- lacetera 2011, reward of a voucher. no of donations increases as value of voucher increases
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opt out or opt in organ donation
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- 48 countries, deceased and living dnation rates, 13 years
- shepherd, o’carroll & ferguson 2014
- more living donations for opt in
- more deceased donations for opt out
- but slightly more overall for opt out
