Similarity not favourability: The role of donor prototypes in predicting willingness to donate organs while living

& (2009) Similarity not favourability: The role of donor prototypes in predicting willingness to donate organs while living. Journal of Health Psychology, 14(7), pp. 888-898.

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Using an extended Prototype/Willingness Model, we examined the predictors of willingness to donate an organ to a partner/family member and a stranger while living. A questionnaire assessed university students’ (N = 284) attitudes, subjective norm, prototype favourability, prototype similarity, moral norm, and willingness to donate organs in each recipient scenario. All variables, except prototype favourability, predicted willingness to donate organs in both situations. Future strategies should emphasise perceived approval from important others for living donation, the consistency of living donation with one’s own morals, and encourage perceptions of similarity between oneself and living donors to increase acceptance of living donation.

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ID Code: 28123
Item Type: Contribution to Journal (Journal Article)
Refereed: Yes
ORCID iD:
White, Katherineorcid.org/0000-0002-0345-4724
Measurements or Duration: 11 pages
Keywords: Donor Prototypes, Living Organ Donation, Moral Norm, Organ Donation, Prototype/Willingness Model
DOI: 10.1177/1359105309340990
ISSN: 1359-1053
Pure ID: 31927601
Divisions: Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Faculty of Health
Past > Institutes > Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation
Current > Schools > School of Psychology & Counselling
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