Donations to Outgroup Charities, but Not Ingroup Charities, Predict Helping Intentions Toward Street-Beggars in Sweden
(2019) In Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 48(4). p.814-838- Abstract
This article investigates how donation behavior to charitable organizations and helping intentions toward begging European Union (EU)-migrants are related. This question was tested by analyzing survey responses from 1,050 participants sampled from the general Swedish population. Although the overall results suggested that donations to charitable organizations were positively related to helping intentions toward beggars, the results differed substantially as a function of whether the organization was perceived to focus its efforts on outgroup victims or on ingroup victims. Specifically, whereas donation behavior toward outgroup-focused organizations clearly predicted more helping intentions toward beggars (also when controlling for... (More)
This article investigates how donation behavior to charitable organizations and helping intentions toward begging European Union (EU)-migrants are related. This question was tested by analyzing survey responses from 1,050 participants sampled from the general Swedish population. Although the overall results suggested that donations to charitable organizations were positively related to helping intentions toward beggars, the results differed substantially as a function of whether the organization was perceived to focus its efforts on outgroup victims or on ingroup victims. Specifically, whereas donation behavior toward outgroup-focused organizations clearly predicted more helping intentions toward beggars (also when controlling for demographics, education, income, religiosity, and political inclination), donation behavior toward ingroup-focused organizations predicted slightly less helping intentions toward beggars. We conclude that the type of charitable organization a person donates to might tell us more about his or her values and preferences than merely whether or not he or she donates at all.
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- author
- Erlandsson, Arvid LU ; Nilsson, Artur LU ; Tinghög, Gustav ; Andersson, David and Västfjäll, Daniel
- organization
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- 2019
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- donation behavior, helpful personality, helping street beggars, international/domestic charitable giving, outgroup/ingroup helping, philanthropy in Sweden
- in
- Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
- volume
- 48
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 814 - 838
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
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- scopus:85059512760
- ISSN
- 0899-7640
- DOI
- 10.1177/0899764018819872
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- English
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- yes
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- 81c55a86-7688-4447-a0de-dc0711c5e189
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- 2019-01-18 08:18:10
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abstract = {{<p>This article investigates how donation behavior to charitable organizations and helping intentions toward begging European Union (EU)-migrants are related. This question was tested by analyzing survey responses from 1,050 participants sampled from the general Swedish population. Although the overall results suggested that donations to charitable organizations were positively related to helping intentions toward beggars, the results differed substantially as a function of whether the organization was perceived to focus its efforts on outgroup victims or on ingroup victims. Specifically, whereas donation behavior toward outgroup-focused organizations clearly predicted more helping intentions toward beggars (also when controlling for demographics, education, income, religiosity, and political inclination), donation behavior toward ingroup-focused organizations predicted slightly less helping intentions toward beggars. We conclude that the type of charitable organization a person donates to might tell us more about his or her values and preferences than merely whether or not he or she donates at all.</p>}},
author = {{Erlandsson, Arvid and Nilsson, Artur and Tinghög, Gustav and Andersson, David and Västfjäll, Daniel}},
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title = {{Donations to Outgroup Charities, but Not Ingroup Charities, Predict Helping Intentions Toward Street-Beggars in Sweden}},
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