The mediating role of the prosocial tendency in between voluntary motivation and voluntary behavior

Objective:To explore the mediating role of the prosocial tendency in between voluntary motivation and voluntary behavior.Methods:Three hundred and fifty-five medical student volunteers were investigated using the general data questionnaire,prosocial tendency scale,voluntary functional motivation scale and voluntary behavior questionnaire.The data were analyzed,and the structural equation model were constructed.Results:Among the six subscales of voluntary functional motivation,the scores of the self-enhancement motivation,value-expression motivation,social communication motivation,learning and understanding motivation,career motivation and self-protect motivation were 5.301,5.244,5.239,5.228,4.999 and 4.982,respectively.Among the six dimensions of pro-social tendency,the scores of altruistic tendency,opening tendency,obedience tendency,anonymous tendency,emotional tendency and emergency tendency were 3.987,3.954,3.891,3.812,3.761 and 3.754,respectively.There were significantly positive correlations between the six dimensions of voluntary functional motivation,total scale of voluntary functional motivation,six dimensions of prosocial tendencies,total scale of prosocial tendency and voluntary behaviors(P<0.01).Prosocial tendency played a partial mediating effect in between voluntary functional motivation and voluntary behavior.The total effect value of the voluntary functional motivation on voluntary behavior was 0.649,the effect value accounted for 38.51% of the total effect value.Conclusions:Voluntary functional motivation and prosocial tendency can positively predict the voluntary behavior.To strengthen social education and enhance the level of prosocial tendency of students can help to promote the healthy development of the medical students' personality,promote more prosocial behavior of medical students and develop the medical volunteer services.