在全球繁荣研究中的22个国家慈善捐赠和帮助的人口变化
Julia S Nakamura1, Dorota Węziak-Białowolska2,3, Robert D Woodberry4
1Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada. jnakamura@psych.ubc.ca.
Scientific reports
|April 30, 2025
概括
慈善捐赠和帮助等亲社会行为在不同国家和人口群体之间存在很大差异. 了解这些差异是促进全球亲社会主义的关键.
科学领域:
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 跨文化心理学 跨文化心理学
背景情况:
- 亲社会行为,包括慈善捐赠和帮助陌生人,对于个人和社会的福祉至关重要.
- 对于跨国社会行为在社会人口统计学指标中的跨国变化,人们的理解有限.
研究的目的:
- 在一个多样化的国际样本中,检查慈善捐赠和帮助行为在九个人口因素中的分布.
- 调查这些亲社会行为及其人口统计学关联在不同国家之间有何差异.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自全球繁荣研究的数据,包括来自22个国家的202,898名个人.
- 分析了对慈善捐赠和帮助 (上个月) 的二进制变量,与九个人口因素 (年龄,性别,教育等) 相比. ) 的情况.
- 采用随机效应的元分析来评估人口和国家一级的变化.
主要成果:
- 在慈善捐赠 (0.10在日本到0.79在印度尼西亚) 和帮助 (0.11在日本到0.83在尼日利亚) 中观察到显著的国际差异.
- 人口统计学因素与亲社会性有不同的关联 (例如,年龄较大与慈善捐赠有关,但帮助较少;高等教育与捐赠和帮助增加有关).
- 在所有人口统计因素中,慈善捐赠和帮助率在各国之间存在显著差异.
结论:
- 社会人口统计学因素与亲社会行为有关,这些关联是由国家层面的背景调节的.
- 亲社会行为分布和人口统计学协会的国际差异凸显了文化知情干预的必要性.
- 对这些国际变化的进一步研究可以为提高全球亲社会性的战略提供信息.
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