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Moral Threshold Model is Universal? Initial Evidence from China's Collectivist Culture.

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    • المصدر:
      Publisher: Dove Medical Press Country of Publication: New Zealand NLM ID: 101514563 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 1179-1578 (Print) Linking ISSN: 11791578 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Psychol Res Behav Manag Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE
    • بيانات النشر:
      Original Publication: [Auckland, N.Z.] : Dove Medical Press, c2008-
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Purpose: People choose actions that maintain their moral self-regard. This paper explains how one's moral actions influence moral self-regard. The moral threshold model (MTM) has been proposed by scholars and tested using a limited sample. However, whether the MTM is universally applicable among people is still unknown.
      Participants and Methods: Our sample comprised 1761 individuals living in China, a collectivist culture, who were recruited to test the two main hypotheses of the MTM. Participants engaged in a hypothetical investment task.
      Results: 1) When the beneficiary was a prosocial cause, participants showed stronger preferences for smaller guaranteed positive payouts over larger uncertain ones; 2) as compared to making decisions for charities, when a participant made decisions exclusively for themselves, the maximum potential benefit was more likely to influence participant behavior.
      Conclusion: The current study provides initial evidence for the validity of using the worst outcome avoidance (WOA) hypothesis of MTM among members of China's collectivist culture, indicating that the WOA hypothesis of MTM may have universal application.
      Competing Interests: Authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.
      (© 2021 Xiao et al.)
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    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: collectivist culture; egoistic behavior; moral self-regard; morality; prosocial behavior
    • الموضوع:
      Date Created: 20211119 Latest Revision: 20220428
    • الموضوع:
      20231215
    • الرقم المعرف:
      PMC8593355
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.2147/PRBM.S333364
    • الرقم المعرف:
      34795540