Who is more likely to help a stranger in trouble? A person with a rural or urban background?/////

Is Helping Behavior Influenced by the Helper 's Environmental Orientation

br This research seeks to determine whether an individual 's willingness to help others is influenced by his /her environmental origin . To this , the research will measure and compare the willingness of the participants to help strangers . The participants will come from an urban and rural background as a means of measuring the influence of the participant 's environmental orientation

Problem statement

This study seeks to determine whether there is a difference in the willingness to help between individual 's

who come from a rural and urban background

Significance

This study seeks to find out whether a person 's environmental orientation would affect his /her willingness to help other people . There has been much study about altruism or helping behaviors and this study would further the scientific knowledge about the through an actual experiment . Moreover , the apparent individualism and emphasis on personal achievement have probably led to the decrease in altruistic behaviors or even the willingness to help others especially strangers This study seeks to find out whether urban and rural individuals differ in their willingness to help which also contributes to the knowledge base on environmental orientation . In a way , this study would also examine the belief that individual 's who live in rural areas are more willing to help than those who live in urban areas based on the observation that individual 's who reside in urban areas are individualistic

Related Literature

Socialization is an important factor that has been found to influence the values , beliefs and philosophies of an individual . Socialization is also as much a product of the kind of culture and social influences that the community is found in . Thus , rural communities differ from urban communities based on the degree of interpersonal relationships , social cohesion of the community and individualism . Therefore urban communities do not have the kind of social relationships that is prerequisite for helping behaviors . In a study by Berenguer , Corraliza and Martin (2005 on helping behaviors for the protection of the environment between rural and urban respondents found that rural participants generally have more consistency with their attitudes and behavior on assuming responsibility for protecting the environment . People who lived in an urban community had positive attitudes on protecting the environment but did not actually behaved as such . The study also measured the moral obligation level of the participants and found that there was no difference between the two groups . This tells us that a difference in the behavior and attitudes of people from rural and urban areas does exist . In another study by Batson (1991 ) have opened the concept that people often notice callousness than caring about others and helping others . He found that people mostly remember the negative than the positive but it is undeniable that people do help others although on varying degrees Helping behavior is not dead , despite the individualistic society the western world has , people do still help others . Just as how much do people help...