Guanxi And Altruism

From the perspective of sociology, the research is to make a profound study on undergraduate students' altruistic behavior tendency in daily life. Based on the questionnaire investigation of 473 undergraduate students and interview of several cases in Wuhan, the article describes the characteristics of undergraduate students' sciential, emotional and economical altruistic behavior tendency in daily life, probes into the influential factors, most of all, the extraordinary factor of Guanxi between altruistic person and help seeker, and attempts to make a theoretical explanation. The primary content is illuminated in the five chapters:The first part summarizes the background of the question, reviews the related studies. In addition, the chapter proposes the purpose, meaning and train of research, defines and operates the key concepts, and states the method applied.In the second chapter, based on the questionnaire investigation, it describes the characteristics of undergraduate students' sciential, emotional and economical altruistic behavior tendency in daily life, discusses the influence of help seeker's competitor role, altruistic person's passive mood, and seeking help reason on the altruistic behavior tendency, and emphases on the special role of Guanxi between altruistic person and help seeker.The purpose of the third chapter is to verify the authenticity of the characteristics described in front, by the Paried-Samples T Test. And after being compared with the results of former studies, it analyzes the profound reasons from the perspective of sociology.The forth chapter employs the Multiple Linear Regression to analyze the influence of other factors on the undergraduate students' altruistic behavior tendency, and demonstrates the special role of Guanxi.The fifth part summarizes the major conclusion, discusses the universality and specificity of undergraduate students' altruistic behavior tendency in daily life, and brings forward some views about research method concerned.