Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Past research on gratitude showed the intense relationship between gratitude and reciprocity, but it is uncertain whether different benefactors (friends and parents) lead to different results. Hence, this study treats university students as the subjects and probes into differences among university students’ direct reciprocity resulting from the same assistance from friends and parents. This study conducts a t test on empirical data and finds that university students tend to show direct reciprocity after being assisted by friends in comparison to parents.
Author: Shueh‐Chin Ting
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2921523676