Psychological Development and Education ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (6): 694-702.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2015.06.08

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Effect of Empathy on College Students' Charitable Donation in Real Acute Disease Situation:Moderated Mediating Effect

DING Fengqin1, NA Wen1,2   

  1. 1. School of Educational, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021;
    2. School of Xinhua, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021
  • Online:2015-11-15 Published:2015-11-15

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Abstract: To explore the inner mechanism that empathy affects the college students' charitable donation based on the real acute disease situation, 462 college students were surveyed with questionnaires about moral intensity, moral identity, empathic concern and charitable donation. The results indicated that:(1) under the real acute disease situation, female students were easier to show empathic response to the unfortunate events of the protagonist than male students, and the empathic response of college students reduced gradually with the distance of grade relationship;(2) empathy played partial mediating effect between moral intensity and charitable donation, i.e., moral intensity promoted charitable donation indirectly by increasing empathy;(3) moral identity moderated the mediating effect of empathy, specifically, comparing with individuals who are low moral identity, the individuals who are high moral identity show more charitable donation, moreover, the mediating effect of empathy on the moral intensity and charitable donation has enhanced significantly. These findings had important theoretical value on understanding the internal mechanism of charitable donation and practical enlightenment meaning to educate and intervene of charitable donation.

Key words: college, empathy, charitable donation, moral identity, moral intensity, real acute disease situation

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  • B844
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