The Role of Moral Beliefs and Altruism in Explaining Attitudes toward Organ Donation with the Mediation of Act to Religious Beliefs

The role of Altruism and Empathy in anticipating the Attitude toward Organ Donation among Nurses in Intensive Care Units of Qazvin: A Cross-Sectional Study

“…There was a direct and significant relationship between the total score of altruism and such components as anonymous prosocial behaviors, emotional prosocial behaviors, dire prosocial behaviors, and compliant prosocial behaviors with the attitudes of nurses toward organ donation. This is in agreement with the results obtained from the study by Khani et al (2016), which showed a significant direct relationship between altruism and the attitude toward organ donation as well as a significant indirect relationship between the altruism caused by practicing religious beliefs and the attitude toward the organ donation [14]. Hill et al (2016) demonstrated that there was a moderate positive correlation between the altruism and the attitude toward the organ donation and among the altruism and big five personality dimensions, only altruism was an important predictor of decision making on organ donation [16].…”

“…Highly emotionally evocative situations lead to overarousal and personal distress for some people, while the response may be sympathy for others [13]; and public prosocial behaviors that are divided into the two subsets of anonymous behavior as helping without knowledge of who is helped and public prosocial behavior as a tendency to perform prosocial acts in front of others [10]. In various studies, including Milaniak (2018), Khani (2017), Newton (2011), and Hill (2016), it has been recognized that altruism is one of the main reasons for the willingness to donate organs [7,14,15,16].…”