Causal attribution, gender, familiarity and their significance on helping behavior

Date of Publication

2007

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts Major in Psychology

Subject Categories

Psychology

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Psychology

Thesis Adviser

Alexa Abrenica

Defense Panel Member

Carmello Callueng

Abstract/Summary

To have a better understanding of the helping behavior Filipinos, a quasi-experiment on selected 300 college students of De La Salle University was done in order to test the significance of causal attribution, gender, and familiarity on helping behavior. Through a chi-square analysis of the observed helping frequencies, it was found that causal attribution and familiarity, just as it was predicted, had significant effects on helping whereas the hypothesis that gender and helping behavior were significantly related was rejected. The important implications of the study are that (a) the greater the perceived urgency, the easier it is for someone to help (b) whether the help-seeker is from the opposite or of the same sex does not make differences mainly due to gender roles and finally, although it is expected that people will help familiar faces more as opposed to strangers, (c) sharing commonalities or being members of the same group eliminates strangers from being strangers . Being a part of the same La Sallian community allowed the subjects to help positively even towards unknown faces.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU14022

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

59 leaves ; ill. ; 29 cm.

Keywords

Helping behavior--Philippines; Causation-- Psychological aspects--Philippines

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