The trustworthiness of other people and personal inclination: two distinct drivers of giving

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Chapter 5 in Giving Behaviours and Social Cohesion, 2019, pp 115-136 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The drivers of giving were analysed using data from the Citizenship Survey of England and Wales. It was found, as expected, that motivations to give depended partly on trust-enhancing conditions within the wider social environment. However, it also revealed a propensity to give, compatible with an attitudinal component, which was able to stimulate giving even when the wider social environment was unfavourable and the giver’s trust consequently low. This finding suggests that individual giving behaviours are not entirely a by-product of trust-enhancing conditions, even though trust is usually expected to sustain prosocial inclination. The finding that individuals also have a limited but significant capacity for prosocial action that is independent of their trust in others suggests how it is possible for individuals to also be agents of change within their environment.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Social Policy and Sociology; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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