著者

二村 郁美 FUTAMURA Ikumi

出版者

名古屋大学大学院教育発達科学研究科

雑誌

名古屋大学大学院教育発達科学研究科紀要. 心理発達科学 (ISSN:13461729)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.61, pp.165-172, 2014

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This study examined about the consequences and expectation of consequences in several kinds of everyday prosocial behavior. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 graduate students (6 men, 11 women). The interviews were about emotion, cognition, and behavior experienced in the following three real life scenes: giving a seat to elderly people on a train (train scene), reporting a lost belongings (lost belonging scene), and making a donation for charity (donation scene). The main findings were as follows: (1) prosocial behavior was more likely to be performed in lost belonging scene, train scene, and donation scene respectively. (2) In train scene, it was ambiguous whether performing prosocial behavior was helpful for the recipient, and negative emotion was experienced in both situations: the behavior had not been performed and when it had been performed but it had not been accepted. (3) In lost belonging scene, negative emotion was not likely to occur, and it was expected that performing the behavior would be helpful basically. (4) In donation scene, negative emotion was likely to occur, donors were not likely to be evaluated as positive, and non-donors were not likely to be evaluated as negative. From these findings, when performing prosocial behavior, there are several ambiguities about the consequences: ambiguity of recipient's need, ambiguity of the recipient's utilization of help, and ambiguity of evaluation to benefactor. It was suggested that those ambiguities were significant inhibition factor of prosocial behavior.