Personality Characteristics Associated with Giving and Receiving Help
- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 38 (2) , 343-353
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1976.38.2.343
Abstract
Adult males over females frequently involved in helping others with day-to-day difficulties reported greater needs to express affection and control than males and females infrequently involved in helping others. (Study ns: 228 men, 214 women.) Females frequently involved in helping also had greater need for expressed and wanted inclusion.Keywords
This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- On the Dynamics of the Helping RelationshipThe Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1970