2014/07/18 by Ella Daniel, Antoine Selim Bilgin, Ivan Brezina +2 · 1 citation
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Cultural Differences and Values #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
paper · doi:10.1002/ijop.12086
Values are important factors in determining individuals' behaviours. Previous studies have examined the relations between values and helping behaviour, but usually in the context of a single culture. The current study examines the relations between personal value types and helping behaviour among university students (N = 722) in four cultures (Germany, Scotland-UK, Israel and Turkey). Across cultures, the value types of self-transcendence versus self-enhancement and conservation versus openness to change were positively related to helping. Specifically, self-transcendence values were positively related, and self-enhancement and openness to change values negatively related, to helping behaviour. The correlations pattern did not differ significantly between cultures.