Addiction to altruism? Opponent-process theory and habitual blood donation.
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Vol. 43 (6) , 1200-1213
- https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.43.6.1200
Abstract
Explores the possibility that one of undoubtedly several interacting motives behind commitment to regular blood donation is the development of an affective "addiction" to the behavior, based on initial anxiety, through the mechanisms postulated by opponent-process theory. Pre- and post-donation responses to 1,846 blood donation experiences were subjected to correlational and regression analyses. Support was found for the relevance of opponent-process theory to the development of positive affective responses to donation. (21 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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