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

• Main Author: Luarca, Rosa Anna Celina V.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Helping behavior > Philippines; Causation > Psychological aspects > Philippines; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2198
• Institution: De La Salle University

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.