Meeting recipients' needs in dyadic cross-group helping: When the nature of the helper's motivation matters

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Authors

This report introduces a series of hypotheses on how intergroup (dis)similarities between the helper's and the recipient's group may affect the recipient's perceptions of the helper's need-responsiveness. Hypotheses were tested in a real world context of helping (intercultural volunteerism) by using data from two discrete samples of interacting participants. As hypothesized, among culturally similar helper-recipient dyads (but not among dissimilar dyads) feelings of other-focused empathy increased the helper's perceived responsiveness to the recipient's needs, whereas among culturally dissimilar dyads (but not among similar dyads) ego-focused concerns decreased the helper's need-responsiveness. In addition, among culturally dissimilar dyads helper's need-responsiveness was more strongly contingent upon whether he or she found the recipient attractive or not than among culturally similar dyads. These findings suggest that members of out-groups who may require need-sensitive help most (members of dissimilar out-groups perceived as unattractive) may have a significantly reduced chance to receive it.

Original languageEnglish
JournalGroup Processes and Intergroup Relations
Volume15
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)762-775
Number of pages14
ISSN1368-4302
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11.2012
Externally publishedYes

DOI

Recently viewed

Publications

  1. A pluralistic and integrated approach to action-oriented knowledge for sustainability
  2. The economic insurance value of ecosystem resilience
  3. Das Alltagsmedium Blatt im kulturellen Wandel
  4. Der Rhein, die Schokolade, das Exkrement
  5. PRB technologies in Germany
  6. Mit der Ausbildung der Studierenden zu Unternehmern haben die Hochschulen noch ihre liebe Not
  7. Night-time noise annoyance
  8. Institutional Logics as orchestras' strategic dilemma
  9. Critical assessment of models for transport of engineered nanoparticles in saturated porous media
  10. Assessing Online Consultation in Participatory Governance
  11. Konstanz im Wandel?
  12. Rain, rain go away! A diary study on morning weather and affective well‐being at work
  13. A poor international standard for trap selectivity threatens carnivore conservation
  14. Professionell und/oder gestaltungsorientiert?
  15. Mathematical Prerequisites for STEM Programs
  16. Aprendiendo con todos los sentidos en la clase EFE
  17. Syntheses of retipolide E and ornatipolide, 14-membered biaryl-ether macrolactones from mushrooms
  18. Museums, Transculturality, and the Nation-State
  19. Being Recovered as an Antecedent of Emotional Labor
  20. Treppauf, Treppab
  21. Environmental Value Added
  22. Pflanzengesellschaft des Jahres 2021
  23. Der Sprachkörper unter dem Seziermesser: Strukturalismus im Goethe-Wörterbuch
  24. MSPs for the SDGs
  25. Determinanten menschlicher Fehler in Risikoindustrien
  26. Knowledge transfer in age-diverse coworker dyads in China and Germany
  27. Wasser und nachhaltige Chemie
  28. Ansatzpunkte für ein systematisches Beschäftigungsmanagement
  29. Stromzugang im Globalen Süden