Perception of class mobility moderates the relationship between social class and prosocial behaviour.
Previous studies have reported contradictory relationships between social class and prosocial behaviour. Some studies have found that higher class individuals are more likely to exhibit prosocial behaviour than lower class individuals; whereas in others the opposite was observed. In view of this dif...
| Publicado en: | Asian Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 88 - 103 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2022
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