Sense of community responsibility and altruistic behavior in Chinese community residents: The mediating role of communit
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Sense of community responsibility and altruistic behavior in Chinese community residents: The mediating role of community identity Chao Yang 1,2,3 & Yanli Wang 1,2 & Brian J. Hall 4,5 & Hong Chen 1,2
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Abstract Currently there are no validated scales to evaluate altruistic behavior within Chinese communities. Moreover, the relationship between sense of community responsibility, altruistic behavior, and community identity is unknown. The present study aimed to establish the reliability and validity of a revised version of the Self-Report Altruism scale for Chinese community residents, and to explore the mediating effect of community identity on the association between sense of community responsibility and altruistic behavior. First, this scale was revised by reviewing existing Chinese versions of Self-Report Altruism scale and identifying 20 Chinese items that had the same meaning as the English items. Next, a community sample of 615 Chinese residents were recruited to conduct a psychometric scale evaluation. Results from item analysis, reliability and validity analyses, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that the revised Self-Report Altruism scale, consisting of 17 items across two dimensions, was reliable and valid. Next, 1172 community residents were recruited from 34 provinces in China for a cross-sectional study to address the study’s second aim. Multiple regression analyses demonstrated that community identity has an indirect effect between sense of community responsibility and altruistic behavior. Implications and directions for future research were also discussed. Keywords Altruism . Community identity . Sense of community responsibility . Scale revision . Mediating role
Introduction Previous studies have shown that altruistic behavior is beneficial to the development and survival of humankind, and it is of great practical significance to study it further (Fehr and Fischbacher 2005; Hu et al. 2016). However, researchers found that people’s concern for others had become scarce since 1979, and reached the largest decline between 2000
* Hong Chen [email protected] 1
Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (Ministry of Education), Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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School of Psychology, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025, China
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Global and Community Mental Health Research Group, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, E21-3040, Macau, Taipa, China
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Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
and 2010 (Konrath et al. 2011). Meanwhile, with the transformation of social structure, the advancement of urbanization, and the intensification of population mobility, communities in which most people are strangers have become the main form of urban community in China. That means the
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