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Predictors of Helping Behavior Toward Coworkers With Disabilities
Author(s) -
Miller Brian K.,
Werner Steve
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00275.x
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , test (biology) , preference , equity (law) , sample (material) , helping behavior , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , paleontology , chemistry , chromatography , political science , law , economics , biology , microeconomics
We partially test and extend Stone & Colella's (1996) model of factors affecting the treatment of persons with disabilities. We conducted a laboratory experiment designed to predict helping behavior toward a coworker with a disability on a reward‐independent task. Data were collected in a survey designed to measure some of our predictors. The experiment included a confederate, in whom we manipulated the presence and type of a disability (no disability, mental disability, and physical disability) and 133 participants. We ran a manipulation check on 84 participants in a holdout sample. Results indicate that impression management, equity preference, and type of disability were significantly related to helping behavior, but presence of disability and feminine gender‐role identity were not.