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Title: | Blood donor behaviour, motivations and the need for a systematic cross-cultural perspective : the example of moral outrage and health- and non-health-based philanthropy across seven countries |
Authors: | Ferguson, Eamonn Dorner, Laszlo France, Christopher R. France, Janis L. Masser, Barbara Lam, Michael Marta, Elena Alfieri, Sara Merz, Eva-Maria Adams, Byron Huis in ’t Veld, Elisabeth Scerri, Josianne |
Keywords: | Blood -- Collection and preservation Blood donors -- Psychology Altruism -- Case studies |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
Publisher: | International Society of Blood Transfusion |
Citation: | Ferguson, E., Dorner, L., France, C. R., France, J. L., Masser, B., Lam, M., ... & Huis in’t Veld, E. (2018). Blood donor behaviour, motivations and the need for a systematic cross‐cultural perspective: the example of moral outrage and health‐and non‐health‐based philanthropy across seven countries. ISBT Science Series, 13(4), 375-383. |
Abstract: | Background: Blood donation is a prosocial altruistic act that is motived by the mechanisms that underlie altruism (e.g. warm‐glow, reciprocity, fairness/trust). Because there is consistent evidence that altruism and its mechanisms show cross‐cultural variability, in the present paper we make the case for a cross‐cultural perspective in blood donor research. Methods: We analyse a subset of variables from a larger study, with samples drawn from seven countries (England, Malta, the Netherlands, Australia, the USA , Hungary, Italy: average N per country = 282). This subset of variables focuses on health (organ donor registration) and non‐health (volunteering, donating money) philanthropy, family traditions of helping and moral outrage as predictors of blood donor status. Results: We show two cross‐cultural universals: (1) organ donor registration in opt‐in countries is positively associated with blood donor status and (2) non‐health philanthropy is generally unrelated to blood donor status. We also show two country‐specific effects: (1) a family tradition for helping is associated with blood donor status in Italy only and (2) moral outrage is a predictor only in the USA . Conclusions: We contend that these findings provide proof of principle why a cross‐cultural perspective on blood donor behaviour is needed. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/58407 |
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