Is Religiosity a Barrier to Organ Donations? Examining the Role of Religiosity and the Salience of a Religious Context on Organ-Donation Decisions
Is Religiosity a Barrier to Organ Donations? Examining the Role of Religiosity and the Salience of a Religious Context on Organ-Donation Decisions
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DOI：
10.1086/718459
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发表时间：
2022-04-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Kogut，Tehila
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作者：
Harel，Inbal;Mayorga，Marcus;Kogut，Tehila
等待器官移植的患者数量与器官可用性之间的差距逐年扩大。器官捐献的主要障碍之一是宗教信仰。我们研究了宗教信仰和其他相关信仰在基督徒（研究 1 和 3）和犹太人（研究 2）的器官捐赠决策中的作用。在所有样本中，我们发现宗教信仰和宗教背景的显着性之间存在显着的相互作用，并受到问题顺序的影响，因此宗教信仰（特别是外在宗教）与对器官捐赠的较低支持显着相关——但只有当首先引发宗教态度时，而不是当首先出现对器官捐赠的支持或有关其他信仰的问题时（研究3）。我们研究了这种效应背后的可能机制，并讨论了这一发现的理论和实践意义，以增加对个人和政策决策中器官捐赠的支持。
The disparity between the number of patients awaiting organ transplantation and organ availability increases each year. One of the chief obstacles to organ donation is religiosity. We examine the role of religiosity and other related beliefs in organ-donation decisions among Christians (studies 1 and 3) and Jews (study 2). In all samples, we found a significant interaction between religiosity and the salience of a religious context, manipulated by the order of the questions, such that religiosity (and specifically, extrinsic religion) was significantly associated with lower support for organ donations—but only when religious attitudes were elicited first, not when support for organ donation, or questions about other beliefs (study 3) appeared first. We examine possible mechanisms underlying this effect and discuss theoretical and practical implications of this finding to increase support for organ donations in both personal and policy decisions.