Poverty Attributions and Emotions Associated With Willingness to Help and Government Aid

Autores
Yúdica, Lucas; Bastias, Franco Emmanuel; Etchezahar, Edgardo Daniel
Año de publicación
2021
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This study aims to understand how willingness to help people in poverty and the agreement with providing government aid are connected to emotions and attributional processes, in a country with a high poverty rate such as Argentina. Differences in poverty attributions and emotions among selfreported social class are also analysed. A total sample of 331 secondary-school students completed self-administered questionnaires. Correlations and regression analyses showed that, whereas emotionssuch as compassion, empathy and pity seem to motivate helping behaviours, explanations as to the cause of poverty, rather than emotions, are closely associated with an agreement to providing government aid. However, low levels of angerseem to be required to endorse both helping behaviours and agreement to providing government aid. On the other hand, respondents who selfidentify as belonging to upper classes report more anger and use fewer structural explanations to understand poverty than lower-classes respondents. We propose that future research analyse a greater variety of helping behaviours towards people in poverty and types of government intervention in the global south.
Fil: Yúdica, Lucas. Universidad Católica de Cuyo - Sede San Juan; Argentina
Fil: Bastias, Franco Emmanuel. Universidad Católica de Cuyo - Sede San Juan; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza; Argentina
Fil: Etchezahar, Edgardo Daniel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental Dr. Horacio J. A. Rimoldi; Argentina
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Causal attributions
Emotions
Government aid
Poverty
Helping behaviour
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spelling Poverty Attributions and Emotions Associated With Willingness to Help and Government AidYúdica, LucasBastias, Franco EmmanuelEtchezahar, Edgardo DanielCausal attributionsEmotionsGovernment aidPovertyHelping behaviourhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5This study aims to understand how willingness to help people in poverty and the agreement with providing government aid are connected to emotions and attributional processes, in a country with a high poverty rate such as Argentina. Differences in poverty attributions and emotions among selfreported social class are also analysed. A total sample of 331 secondary-school students completed self-administered questionnaires. Correlations and regression analyses showed that, whereas emotionssuch as compassion, empathy and pity seem to motivate helping behaviours, explanations as to the cause of poverty, rather than emotions, are closely associated with an agreement to providing government aid. However, low levels of angerseem to be required to endorse both helping behaviours and agreement to providing government aid. On the other hand, respondents who selfidentify as belonging to upper classes report more anger and use fewer structural explanations to understand poverty than lower-classes respondents. We propose that future research analyse a greater variety of helping behaviours towards people in poverty and types of government intervention in the global south.Fil: Yúdica, Lucas. Universidad Católica de Cuyo - Sede San Juan; ArgentinaFil: Bastias, Franco Emmanuel. Universidad Católica de Cuyo - Sede San Juan; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza; ArgentinaFil: Etchezahar, Edgardo Daniel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental Dr. Horacio J. A. Rimoldi; ArgentinaUniversity of Rijeka. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences2021-12info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/152256Yúdica, Lucas; Bastias, Franco Emmanuel; Etchezahar, Edgardo Daniel; Poverty Attributions and Emotions Associated With Willingness to Help and Government Aid; University of Rijeka. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; Psihologijske teme; 30; 3; 12-2021; 509-5241332-07421849-0395CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://hrcak.srce.hr/267076info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.31820/pt.30.3.6info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T09:44:30Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/152256instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 09:44:30.477CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Poverty Attributions and Emotions Associated With Willingness to Help and Government Aid
title Poverty Attributions and Emotions Associated With Willingness to Help and Government Aid
spellingShingle Poverty Attributions and Emotions Associated With Willingness to Help and Government Aid
Yúdica, Lucas
Causal attributions
Emotions
Government aid
Poverty
Helping behaviour
title_short Poverty Attributions and Emotions Associated With Willingness to Help and Government Aid
title_full Poverty Attributions and Emotions Associated With Willingness to Help and Government Aid
title_fullStr Poverty Attributions and Emotions Associated With Willingness to Help and Government Aid
title_full_unstemmed Poverty Attributions and Emotions Associated With Willingness to Help and Government Aid
title_sort Poverty Attributions and Emotions Associated With Willingness to Help and Government Aid
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Yúdica, Lucas
Bastias, Franco Emmanuel
Etchezahar, Edgardo Daniel
author Yúdica, Lucas
author_facet Yúdica, Lucas
Bastias, Franco Emmanuel
Etchezahar, Edgardo Daniel
author_role author
author2 Bastias, Franco Emmanuel
Etchezahar, Edgardo Daniel
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Causal attributions
Emotions
Government aid
Poverty
Helping behaviour
topic Causal attributions
Emotions
Government aid
Poverty
Helping behaviour
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This study aims to understand how willingness to help people in poverty and the agreement with providing government aid are connected to emotions and attributional processes, in a country with a high poverty rate such as Argentina. Differences in poverty attributions and emotions among selfreported social class are also analysed. A total sample of 331 secondary-school students completed self-administered questionnaires. Correlations and regression analyses showed that, whereas emotionssuch as compassion, empathy and pity seem to motivate helping behaviours, explanations as to the cause of poverty, rather than emotions, are closely associated with an agreement to providing government aid. However, low levels of angerseem to be required to endorse both helping behaviours and agreement to providing government aid. On the other hand, respondents who selfidentify as belonging to upper classes report more anger and use fewer structural explanations to understand poverty than lower-classes respondents. We propose that future research analyse a greater variety of helping behaviours towards people in poverty and types of government intervention in the global south.
Fil: Yúdica, Lucas. Universidad Católica de Cuyo - Sede San Juan; Argentina
Fil: Bastias, Franco Emmanuel. Universidad Católica de Cuyo - Sede San Juan; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza; Argentina
Fil: Etchezahar, Edgardo Daniel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental Dr. Horacio J. A. Rimoldi; Argentina
description This study aims to understand how willingness to help people in poverty and the agreement with providing government aid are connected to emotions and attributional processes, in a country with a high poverty rate such as Argentina. Differences in poverty attributions and emotions among selfreported social class are also analysed. A total sample of 331 secondary-school students completed self-administered questionnaires. Correlations and regression analyses showed that, whereas emotionssuch as compassion, empathy and pity seem to motivate helping behaviours, explanations as to the cause of poverty, rather than emotions, are closely associated with an agreement to providing government aid. However, low levels of angerseem to be required to endorse both helping behaviours and agreement to providing government aid. On the other hand, respondents who selfidentify as belonging to upper classes report more anger and use fewer structural explanations to understand poverty than lower-classes respondents. We propose that future research analyse a greater variety of helping behaviours towards people in poverty and types of government intervention in the global south.
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