Gift giving: An interdisciplinary review

By A. Sargeant, Lucy Woodliffe. 2007

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The issue of why individuals choose to support charity has been the focus of considerable research in the disciplines of economics, psychology, social psychology, sociology, anthropology and more recently, management and marketing. This paper draws together extant work, developing a content model of giving behavior that fundraisers may use to inform their professional practice. A number of specific propositions are developed from the literature to assist in this goal. The paper provides summary tables of existing empirical studies categorized by the dimensions of the model, explores ambiguity in research findings, and concludes by highlighting opportunities for further research Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The Development and Validation of the Motives to Donate Scale (2018, background): “The Motives to Donate scale includes six factors, reaffirming findings in the literature that the motives to donate are multifaceted (Sargeant & Woodliffe, 2007).”
• Dealing with social desirability bias:an application to charitable giving (2011, background): “While some forms of giving may be spontaneous and uncommitted requiring little thought, many donors give because they are passionate about the cause, or because it relates to important personal needs, values and interests (Sargeant and Woodliffe, 2007).”
• The effect of time volunteering and charitable donations in later life on psychological wellbeing (2010, background): “…and a sense of social responsibility were motivational factors for charitable giving as well as for time volunteering (Apinunmahakul and Devlin 2008; Bryant et al. 2003; Duncan 1999; Hur 2006; Lee and Chang 2007; Rossi 2001, 2004; Sargeant and Woodliffe 2007; Small, Lowenstein and Slovic 2007).”
• Emotional reactions, perceived impact and perceived responsibility mediate the identifiable victim effect, proportion dominance effect and in-group effect respectively (2015, background): “For example, helping motivation decreases if the overhead costs are perceived as high (Sargeant & Woodliffe, 2007), but increases when campaigns approach their goals because donors believe that their contribution will make a larger impact then (Cryder, Loewenstein, & Seltman, 2013).”