Altruism is a wide term that refers to the action that intended to benefit others even the action poses a risk to the actor and it does not set any conditions or expectations of reward for the altruist. (Monroe, 2002) It is closely related to prosocial behavior, also known as helping behavior, helping can range from picking up dropped packages to donating a kidney. (Bernstein, 2016) Altruism is derived from the Latin alter in the 1830s. (Steinberg, 2010) Even though the fundamental nature of altruism is arguable, there is greater consensus on its definition. The characteristics of altruism determine on four criterions, including seeks to increase other’s welfare; voluntary; helps someone else intentionally; and no external reward is expected.
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Abdullahi and Kumar (2016) have conducted a study which was about the gender differences in Prosocial Behaviour, the results of this research have shown that males and females are both almost equal on most of the prosocial behaviour dimensions, that includes perspective taking and other oriented moral reasoning, then the researchers also suggested that females are on higher side suggesting that they have better understanding of others’ mental state and they are more concerned about morality in the society. Moreover, Seefeldt (2008) has also conducted a research which was about gender stereotypes associated with altruistic acts, overall the expected hypotheses have also achieved, including that people would infer a person who performs an altruistic act is more likely to be female, people would infer a person who receives an altruistic act is more likely to be female and participants would infer a person who performs the more extreme act of altruism is more likely to be male and a person who performs a minor act of altruism is more likely to be …show more content…
We assume that there are two hypotheses in our study. The first hypothesis is that the null hypothesis (H0) is motivation and altruistic behavior are statistically independent and the alternative hypothesis (H1) is motivation and altruistic behavior are statistically dependent. The second hypothesis is the null hypothesis (H0) is gender and altruistic behavior are statistically independent and the alternative hypothesis (H1) is gender and altruistic behavior are statistically dependent. Furthermore, the independent variables (IV) of this research are the motivation and gender, while altruistic behavior is the dependent variable
Abdullahi and Kumar (2016) have conducted a study which was about the gender differences in Prosocial Behaviour, the results of this research have shown that males and females are both almost equal on most of the prosocial behaviour dimensions, that includes perspective taking and other oriented moral reasoning, then the researchers also suggested that females are on higher side suggesting that they have better understanding of others’ mental state and they are more concerned about morality in the society. Moreover, Seefeldt (2008) has also conducted a research which was about gender stereotypes associated with altruistic acts, overall the expected hypotheses have also achieved, including that people would infer a person who performs an altruistic act is more likely to be female, people would infer a person who receives an altruistic act is more likely to be female and participants would infer a person who performs the more extreme act of altruism is more likely to be male and a person who performs a minor act of altruism is more likely to be …show more content…
We assume that there are two hypotheses in our study. The first hypothesis is that the null hypothesis (H0) is motivation and altruistic behavior are statistically independent and the alternative hypothesis (H1) is motivation and altruistic behavior are statistically dependent. The second hypothesis is the null hypothesis (H0) is gender and altruistic behavior are statistically independent and the alternative hypothesis (H1) is gender and altruistic behavior are statistically dependent. Furthermore, the independent variables (IV) of this research are the motivation and gender, while altruistic behavior is the dependent variable