Author Note SID 005377290, Department of Psychology, California State University, San Bernardino. The author would like to thank Cristina Chung for providing the push and support needed for getting this paper done and also Netflix and Spotify for the countless hours of distraction. Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to SID 005377290, Department of Psychology, California State University, San Bernardino, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407. Email: 005377290@coyote.csusb.edu.
Abstract
Situational and Personality Determinants on Volunteer Behavior Behavior is studied by many psychologists today to help determine how people will react to certain situations. One behavior that is important is prosocial …show more content…
Volunteer behavior is behavior that inclines people to volunteer to do something, usually without an monetary gain. People who tend to demonstrate prosocial behavior are more likely to volunteer and that is important because these people would be the ones who would volunteer to participate in studies and experiments. Without participants to study, psychologists would now be able to conduct a experiment and we would not have a lot of answers we have now. Therefore, people with prosocial and volunteer behavior help psychologists overall by participating in studies to gain more accurate results to the experimenter's hypotheses. There are two factors that are important to the way participants are influenced on their volunteer behavior: situational factors and personality charateristics. Situational factors are factors that influence a participant depending on the situation or context that they are in. Personality characteristics are parts of a participant's personality and how they view things that could influence them to participate in an …show more content…
There was not a significant difference in the participant's willingness to volunteer due to confederate conditions, χ² (2, N = 175) = 5.30, p = .07, ns. Subsequent chi-square analyses were conducted to test if there were any significant differences in the confederate conditions (see Table 1). There was no significant difference between the CY and CC conditions, χ² (1, N = 114) = .89, p = .35, ns. There was also no significant difference between the CN and CC conditions, χ² (1, N = 117) = 1.74, p = .19, ns. Therefore, these results failed to support differences that were predicted for the CC compared to CY and CN. Although, there was a significant difference between the CY and CN, χ² (1, N = 119) = 5.17, p = .02, s. Thus, people tended to volunteer to participate more in the CY condition significantly more than the CN
Abstract
Situational and Personality Determinants on Volunteer Behavior Behavior is studied by many psychologists today to help determine how people will react to certain situations. One behavior that is important is prosocial …show more content…
Volunteer behavior is behavior that inclines people to volunteer to do something, usually without an monetary gain. People who tend to demonstrate prosocial behavior are more likely to volunteer and that is important because these people would be the ones who would volunteer to participate in studies and experiments. Without participants to study, psychologists would now be able to conduct a experiment and we would not have a lot of answers we have now. Therefore, people with prosocial and volunteer behavior help psychologists overall by participating in studies to gain more accurate results to the experimenter's hypotheses. There are two factors that are important to the way participants are influenced on their volunteer behavior: situational factors and personality charateristics. Situational factors are factors that influence a participant depending on the situation or context that they are in. Personality characteristics are parts of a participant's personality and how they view things that could influence them to participate in an …show more content…
There was not a significant difference in the participant's willingness to volunteer due to confederate conditions, χ² (2, N = 175) = 5.30, p = .07, ns. Subsequent chi-square analyses were conducted to test if there were any significant differences in the confederate conditions (see Table 1). There was no significant difference between the CY and CC conditions, χ² (1, N = 114) = .89, p = .35, ns. There was also no significant difference between the CN and CC conditions, χ² (1, N = 117) = 1.74, p = .19, ns. Therefore, these results failed to support differences that were predicted for the CC compared to CY and CN. Although, there was a significant difference between the CY and CN, χ² (1, N = 119) = 5.17, p = .02, s. Thus, people tended to volunteer to participate more in the CY condition significantly more than the CN