Internal migrants' charitable giving to hometowns in China: The effect of community embeddedness

We investigated the mental health status of 320 internal migrants in Beijing according to gender, age, marital status, and monthly income, and examined the relationship between their mental health status and social support mechanisms. Participants completed the self-report Symptom Checklist-90-R and Social Support Rating Scale. Results showed that their mental health was significantly worse than the Chinese adult norm as assessed in 2017. Participants' social support varied according to age, marital status, and monthly income. Female participants younger than 30 years old with a monthly income lower than 3,000 yuan comprised the group with the most mental health disorder symptoms. They thus required greater personal attention to their health. The results suggested that social support can predict mental health among internal migrants. Directions for further research are discussed.

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23. What Influences Charitable Giving?

The Nonprofit Sector ◽

10.1515/9781503611085-032 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 543-557

Keyword(s):

Charitable Giving

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Victim Number Effects in Charitable Giving: Joint Evaluations Promote Egalitarian Decisions

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin ◽

10.1177/0146167220982734 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 014616722098273

Author(s):

Alexander Garinther ◽

Holly Arrow ◽

Pooya Razavi

Keyword(s):

Bayesian Estimation ◽

Charitable Giving ◽

Random Order ◽

Single Individual ◽

Temporal Window ◽

Opposite Pattern ◽

Online Experiments ◽

Joint Evaluation

Studies of victim number effects in charitable giving consistently find that people care more and help more when presented with an appeal to help an individual compared with an appeal to help multiple people in need. Across three online experiments ( N = 1,348), Bayesian estimation revealed the opposite pattern when people responded to multiple appeals to help targets of different sizes (1, 2, 5, 7, and 12). In this joint evaluation context, participants donated more to larger groups, when appeals were presented in both ascending order (Study 1) and random order (Study 2). The pattern held whether or not participants saw an overview of all appeals at the start of the study and when a single individual was added to the array (Study 3). These results clarify how compassion fade findings typical of separate evaluations may not generalize to contexts in which people encounter multiple appeals within a short temporal window.

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