Cross-Cultural Volunteerism: Examining the Effects of Intercultural (Dis)Similarities on Volunteers' Motivations to Support International Students
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Cross-Cultural Volunteerism : Examining the Effects of Intercultural (Dis)Similarities on Volunteers' Motivations to Support International Students. / Siem, Birte; Stürmer, Stefan.
In: Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Vol. 34, No. 6, 11.2012, p. 544-557.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Cross-Cultural Volunteerism
T2 - Examining the Effects of Intercultural (Dis)Similarities on Volunteers' Motivations to Support International Students
AU - Siem, Birte
AU - Stürmer, Stefan
PY - 2012/11
Y1 - 2012/11
N2 - Building on a group-level perspective on helping, we investigated the processes that lead domestic students to support international students in the context of voluntary peer-pairing programs. Results from a laboratory and a field study (total N = 198) confirmed that when international students came from culturally similar countries, empathy was a motivator of domestic students' helping intentions and behavior. Among culturally dissimilar dyads, however, helping was more contingent on the evaluation of international students' individual attributes. As moderated mediation analyses suggest, this effect was due to an increase in perceived relationship satisfaction, but, as expected, only among culturally dissimilar dyads.
AB - Building on a group-level perspective on helping, we investigated the processes that lead domestic students to support international students in the context of voluntary peer-pairing programs. Results from a laboratory and a field study (total N = 198) confirmed that when international students came from culturally similar countries, empathy was a motivator of domestic students' helping intentions and behavior. Among culturally dissimilar dyads, however, helping was more contingent on the evaluation of international students' individual attributes. As moderated mediation analyses suggest, this effect was due to an increase in perceived relationship satisfaction, but, as expected, only among culturally dissimilar dyads.
KW - Social Work and Social Pedagogics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84869164857&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01973533.2012.727316
DO - 10.1080/01973533.2012.727316
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:84869164857
VL - 34
SP - 544
EP - 557
JO - Basic and Applied Social Psychology
JF - Basic and Applied Social Psychology
SN - 0197-3533
IS - 6
ER -