Exploring the pattern of blood donor beliefs in first‐time, novice, and experienced donors: differentiating reluctant altruism, pure altruism, impure altruism, and warm glow

Abstract

New avenues for intervention are suggested by the emergence of reluctant altruism for novice donors and warm glow for experienced donors. The importance of distinguishing aspects of altruism is highlighted.

Association between Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Regarding Blood Donation in University Students

“…The other study reported 'to be at society's service' as the most common response, followed by 'to donate while healthy and use it when ill.', [11][17] [18]. As seen so far, study results regarding individuals' motivation to donate blood are contradictory.…”

Physiological Correlates of Volunteering

“…In a study on the relationship between blood donation and charitable giving, blood donors reported a stronger warm glow as they gave more to charity, but non-donors did not. This finding suggests that donating generates less of a warm glow to non-blood donors (Ferguson et al 2012, Study 3).…”

Saving a Life in Front of My Eyes

“…This lack of blood donors has been studied by researches and different factors such as multiple factors including lack of knowledge, fear of getting positive screening results, hard access to approach blood donation area, fear of contracting an infection and other adverse health effects, including loss of vitality etc. [3,5,[21][22][23] were found to be linked with the deferral toward blood donations.…”

“…The attitude and mindset of blood donors have been studied rigorously and reported in literature in the form of multiple factors that affect and create an overall approach of population towards blood donation. These factors include age, gender, mindset, beliefs, political situation of the area, health structure, past experience of the blood donor [2][3][4][5]. However the most prominent reason reported in literature towards blood donation is altruism.…”