Investigating Individual Helping Behavior

INVESTIGATING INDIVIDUAL HELPING BEHAVIOUR : A RESEARCH PROPOSAL

The Arousal Reduction Model (Piliavin Piliavin ) says that emergency situations are arousals . After such arousals people tend to work on the reduction of the arousal since it is unpleasant . Bystanders would react in four different ways . These include direct intervention , indirect intervention , leaving with no intervention and staying at the scene with no intervention . Helping depends on the cost to the helper and what they will gain from the action . For some , they help because it is often rewarding this according to the reciprocal altruism

theory . Direct intervention involves participating actively in helping the person in his problem . Indirect intervention means that the bystander looks for someone else to help the person in need . Leaving with no intervention means that the person who noticed a person needing help ignores him Meanwhile , staying with no intervention means not doing anything at all while still at the scene of incident

The truth that individuals facilitate one another has long been recognised , but the question of why individuals keep in such altruism either straight or during organisations , has confused philosophers and economists since remains (Wispe , 1978 . Whilst it appears that individuals do have a strong drive to help others , consumer behaviourists have long recognised that drive is translated into behaviour only after the person has completed a decision procedure that guides to that behaviour . The scopes that may improve or restrain an individual 's development during the phases in the helping decision procedure can be divided into two main sectors 1 : Internal factors (s of the individual ) and external factors (s of the condition

Internal Factors . Demographics . More affluent people give more , other than it is interesting that the poor and the wealthy come into view to be willing to give advanced proportions of takings to altruistic causes than do those in middle-income cohorts

Personality Variables . At the same time as it might be helpful to recognise a giving personality style , few studies have been capable to set up an important relationship among personality style and helping performance (Penrod , 1983

Social Status . Individuals betrothed in the professions are inclined to become more involved in altruistic causes than do those who hold occupations of less position (Amato , 1985

Mood . Individuals in a good mood tend to show off a strong predisposition to help others (Penrod , 1983 , but people who are in a bad mood that helping others will alleviate that bad mood tends to brusquely improve giving behaviour (Shaffer and Smith , 1985 Individuals in an unbiased mood tend to help the slightest , but if actions are taken to put these people in a good mood , giving amplifies (Cialdini et . al , 1982

Knowledge , Ability , Resources . People help simply when they think they can , and this thinking is over and over again based on how they observe their own facts , skill , and resources in terms of applicability to the predicament , relative profusion , and relationship to the capabilities of others (Margolis , 1982

Previous Experience . An individual 's preceding occurrence with...