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- Title
Motivations for Donation Behavior by Boys of three Different Ages.
- Authors
Raviv, Amiram; Bar-Tal, Daniel; Lewis-Levin, Tirtza
- Abstract
In order to investigate the development of motives for donation behavior, 111 boys of the fourth-, sixth-, and eighth-grade ages were put into situations in which they had an opportunity to donate money for crippled children. These 4 structured situations corresponded to the sequence of stages of helping-behavior development suggested by Bar-Tal, Raviv, and Sharabany and allowed for inference of each child's motives for the donating act. Children who did not use the opportunity to donate in a situation corresponding to a higher stage were given other opportunities in situations corresponding to lower stages. In addition, following the donating act, the children were asked to explain their motives for this behavior. The results of this study showed that (<em>a</em>) the older the children, the greater the percentage of them donating in the more advanced experimental situations; and (<em>b</em>) the more advanced the experimental situation of donation, the more advanced the level of motivation expressed for the donating behavior. These results support the supposition that the motives for helping behavior develop with age.
- Subjects
CHILD development; INTERPERSONAL relations; REASONING; ALTRUISM; HELPING behavior
- Publication
Child Development, 1980, Vol 51, Issue 2, p610
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1129306