Influence of interpersonal affect on causal attribution for helping and non-helping behaviors

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  • 対人感情が援助行動ならびに非援助行動の原因帰属に及ぼす影響
  • タイジン カンジョウ ガ エンジョ コウドウ ナラビニ ヒ エンジョ コウドウ

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The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the influence of interpersonal affect on causal attribution for helping and non-helping behaviors. Each subject, 168 university students in all, was randomly assigned to one cell of a 3 (positive, neutral, and negative interpersonal affect) ×2 (emergent and non-emergent situations) ×2 (sex of a potential recipient) ×2 (sex of a potential helper) design. The subject were asked to rate the likelihood of 25 different helping motives as a cause of helping behavior and the likelihood of 26 different non-helpingmotives as a cause of non-helping behavior.<BR>Major findings obtained were as follows:<BR>(1) Subjects in the positive and neutral interpersonal affect conditions attributed their helping behavior to internal, stable and general causes. They also attributed their non-helping behavior to external, unstable, uncontrollable, and specific causes.<BR>(2) Subjects in the negative interpersonal affect conditions attributed their helping behavior to external, unstable, and specific causes. They also attributed their non-helping behavior to internal, stable, controllable, and general causes.<BR>(3) The influences of the interpersonal affect on causal attribution was generally stronger than the other factors. Interaction effects between the interpersonal affect and the other factors were observed.

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