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The relationship between basic need fulfillment and prosocial behavior: the moderating role of culture

John, Aaron
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Social psychology -- Research
 Prosocial
 Culture -- Psychological aspects
 Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Psychology
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Summer 2023
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2023-08
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Masters Thesis
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We explored the relationship between the satisfaction of basic psychological needs (autonomy, relatedness, and competence) and prosocial behavior. We also investigated how this relationship may differ between cultural groups. We administered an online survey to participants in the U.S. and India using Amazon Mechanical Turk. This survey included a measure of basic psychological need fulfillment (Van der Kaap-Deeder et al., 2020), self- construal as an individual-level marker for cultural differences (Singelis, 1994) and a four-item measure of prosocial intentions (Baumsteiger & Siegel, 2019). We hypothesized that satisfaction of the basic needs would predict increased prosocial intentions. Keywords: prosocial behavior, basic psychological needs, self-construal, culture.
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