The Helping by Clicking Types Questionnaire (HCTQ): The Development of a Measure to Assess Different Patterns of Helping by Clicking
Recently, there has been an increase in the number of aid campaigns launched via social media. The paper explores the phenomenon called “helping by clicking,” which consists in clicking “Like” to support a charitable campaign or cause. The main aim of the paper is to present a new measure: The Helpi...
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| description | Recently, there has been an increase in the number of aid campaigns launched via social media. The paper explores the phenomenon called “helping by clicking,” which consists in clicking “Like” to support a charitable campaign or cause. The main aim of the paper is to present a new measure: The Helping by Clicking Types Questionnaire (HCTQ), assessing the patterns of helping by clicking. In developing the questionnaire, we relied on the theory of reciprocal altruism. The study included two samples of n = 349 and n = 1,006 participants. The HTCQ consists of 19 items making up three subscales: People, Environment, and Animals. The present research included two independent studies. Study 1 was conducted to determine the psychometric properties of the questionnaire, while Study 2 was conducted to verify the previous results and to test the usefulness of the questionnaire in distinguishing individuals with different patterns of helping by clicking. The measure was designed to assess three aspects of helping: helping people, helping the environment, and helping animals via social media. The study showed that the HCTQ was suitable for measuring patterns of helping by clicking. All HCTQ factors had good Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficients. The HCTQ concerns a new and largely unexplored area of helping that involves the use of modern technologies. It reveals people’s motivations for helping. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0cfc5f81f5da484a8c85a68fbf79f1642025-08-20T02:37:35ZengPsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for PsychologyEurope's Journal of Psychology1841-04132024-08-0120323425110.5964/ejop.10917ejop.10917The Helping by Clicking Types Questionnaire (HCTQ): The Development of a Measure to Assess Different Patterns of Helping by ClickingAgata Błachnio0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2384-2396Aneta Przepiórka1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6722-7355Paweł Kot2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1471-1228Andrzej Cudo3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7424-8576Małgorzata Sobol4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0634-9134Institute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, PolandInstitute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, PolandInstitute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, PolandInstitute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, PolandInstitute of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, PolandRecently, there has been an increase in the number of aid campaigns launched via social media. The paper explores the phenomenon called “helping by clicking,” which consists in clicking “Like” to support a charitable campaign or cause. The main aim of the paper is to present a new measure: The Helping by Clicking Types Questionnaire (HCTQ), assessing the patterns of helping by clicking. In developing the questionnaire, we relied on the theory of reciprocal altruism. The study included two samples of n = 349 and n = 1,006 participants. The HTCQ consists of 19 items making up three subscales: People, Environment, and Animals. The present research included two independent studies. Study 1 was conducted to determine the psychometric properties of the questionnaire, while Study 2 was conducted to verify the previous results and to test the usefulness of the questionnaire in distinguishing individuals with different patterns of helping by clicking. The measure was designed to assess three aspects of helping: helping people, helping the environment, and helping animals via social media. The study showed that the HCTQ was suitable for measuring patterns of helping by clicking. All HCTQ factors had good Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficients. The HCTQ concerns a new and largely unexplored area of helping that involves the use of modern technologies. It reveals people’s motivations for helping.https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.10917helping by clickinghelping on the internetbehaviors on the internet |
| spellingShingle | Agata Błachnio Aneta Przepiórka Paweł Kot Andrzej Cudo Małgorzata Sobol The Helping by Clicking Types Questionnaire (HCTQ): The Development of a Measure to Assess Different Patterns of Helping by Clicking Europe's Journal of Psychology helping by clicking helping on the internet behaviors on the internet |
| title | The Helping by Clicking Types Questionnaire (HCTQ): The Development of a Measure to Assess Different Patterns of Helping by Clicking |
| title_full | The Helping by Clicking Types Questionnaire (HCTQ): The Development of a Measure to Assess Different Patterns of Helping by Clicking |
| title_fullStr | The Helping by Clicking Types Questionnaire (HCTQ): The Development of a Measure to Assess Different Patterns of Helping by Clicking |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Helping by Clicking Types Questionnaire (HCTQ): The Development of a Measure to Assess Different Patterns of Helping by Clicking |
| title_short | The Helping by Clicking Types Questionnaire (HCTQ): The Development of a Measure to Assess Different Patterns of Helping by Clicking |
| title_sort | helping by clicking types questionnaire hctq the development of a measure to assess different patterns of helping by clicking |
| topic | helping by clicking helping on the internet behaviors on the internet |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.10917 |
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