This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Van de Vliert, E. Articles by Levine, R. V. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

National Wealth and Thermal Climate as Predictors of Motives for Volunteer Work

University of Groningen

Xu Huang

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Robert V. Levine

California State University, Fresno

A voluntary worker may have both self-serving and altruistic motivations for helping, which may be positively or negatively linked together. Multilevel analyses of World Values Survey data, representatively sampled from 13, 584 inhabitants of 33 countries, uncover a pattern of cross-cultural differences in balancing these self-and other-directed helping motivations. A voluntary worker’s self-serving and altruistic motivations tend to be positively linked in higher income countries with uncomfortably cold or hot climates, unrelated in higher and lower income countries with comfortable climates and in lower income countries with uncomfortably hot climates, and negatively linked in lower income countries with uncomfortably cold climates. The findings are integrated into existing demands—resources theories as well as past research of helping and altruism on all six inhabited continents.

Key Words: voluntary work • egoism • altruism • national wealth • thermal climate

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 1, 62-73 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022103260379


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				T. W. H. Ng, K. L. Sorensen, and F. H. K. Yim Does the Job Satisfaction--Job Performance Relationship Vary Across Cultures? Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, September 1, 2009; 40(5): 761 - 796. [Abstract] [PDF]

				K. Leung and F. J.R. van de Vijver Strategies for Strengthening Causal Inferences in Cross Cultural Research: The Consilience Approach International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, August 1, 2008; 8(2): 145 - 169. [Abstract] [PDF]

				E. Van de Vliert Climatoeconomic Roots of Survival Versus Self-Expression Cultures Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, March 1, 2007; 38(2): 156 - 172. [Abstract] [PDF]

				M. Kemmelmeier, E. E. Jambor, and J. Letner Individualism and Good Works: Cultural Variation in Giving and Volunteering Across the United States Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, May 1, 2006; 37(3): 327 - 344. [Abstract] [PDF]

				E. Van de Vliert Autocratic Leadership Around the Globe: Do Climate and Wealth Drive Leadership Culture? Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, January 1, 2006; 37(1): 42 - 59. [Abstract] [PDF]

				P. B. Smith Nations, Cultures, and Individuals: New Perspectives and Old Dilemmas Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, January 1, 2004; 35(1): 6 - 12. [Abstract] [PDF]