Dissertation
A matter of time: does the impact of social value orientation and self-efficacy on contributions to public goods depend on the temporal framing of the dilemma?
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
05/2007
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000005739
Abstract
Much research indicates that social value orientation, a trait-level preference for self and other outcomes in interdependent situations, predicts cooperation in social dilemmas. Also, perceptions of self-efficacy relate to cooperation in social dilemmas, with low-efficacy predicting low cooperation. The current research predicts that a temporal perspective of a public goods dilemma moderates each of these effects in systematically different ways. Research on Construal Level Theory (CLT) suggests that decision information of distant future events are construed more abstractly than the same information regarding near future events. If distant future decisions facilitate abstract construal of information, then this information may be more readily compared to abstract reference values, such as social values. Also, if a near future perspective facilitates low-level construal of behavioral alternatives, then self-efficacy, which is a feasibility concern, should be more strongly related to cooperative intentions in such perspective, relative to a distant future perspective. The results failed to support both interaction hypotheses and will be discussed in the context of social dilemmas, values, self-efficacy, and CLT.
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- Title
- A matter of time
- Creators
- Daniel Balliet
- Contributors
- Jeffrey A. Joireman (Chair)Craig David Parks (Committee Member) - Washington State University, Office of the ProvostD. Michael KUHLMAN (Committee Member)Paul Michael Whitney (Committee Member) - Washington State University, Office of International Programs
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of Psychology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 64
- Identifiers
- 99901054759101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation