“I Help Because I Want to, Not Because You Tell Me to”: Empathy Increases Autonomously Motivated Helping  

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Pavey, Louisa ; Greitemeyer, Tobias ; Sparks, Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 38 no. 5 (May 2012), page 681-689.
Topik: Empathy; Altruism; Pro-Social Behavior; Motivation; Autonomy
Fulltext: PSPB_38_05_681.pdf (471.55KB)

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Empathetic arousal has been found to be a strong predictor of helping behavior. However, research has neglected the motivational mechanisms whereby empathetic concern elicits help giving. Three studies examined the extent to which autonomous and controlled motives for helping mediated the relationship between empathy and helping. Study 1 found that state empathy predicted willingness to offer time and money to help a person in need, with this relationship mediated by autonomous motivation for helping. Study 2 demonstrated that dis-positional, empathetic concern predicted pro-social intentions and behavior via the mediation of autonomous motivation. Study 3 revealed that participants who focused on the emotions of another person in distress reported greater willingness to help than did participants who remained emotionally detached, with this effect mediated by autonomous motivation to help. Controlled motivation had no positive effects on helping in any of the studies. The results suggest that empathy encourages pro-social behavior by increasing autonomous motivation to help.

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