The role of religiosity, religious norms, subjective norms, and bodily integrity in signing an organ donor card.
This article examines the influence of religiosity, religious norms, subjective norms, and bodily integrity (the extent to which people think the body should remain unaltered after death) on intent to donate organs postmortem. A total of 4,426 participants from 6 universities completed surveys for this study. The results indicate that religiosity and religious norms had a nonsignificant effect on willingness to donate. In addition, attitudes toward donation had a weak positive relationship on intent to donate, whereas subjective norms exerted a modest positive relationship on intent to donate. Finally, the results reveal a strong direct and indirect effect of bodily integrity on intent to donate.
Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4234, USA.
Michael T
MT
Stephenson
Susan E
SE
Morgan
Samaria D
SD
Roberts-Perez
Tyler
T
Harrison
Walid
W
Afifi
Shawn D
SD
Long
D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D001828:Body Image; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D012925:Social Conformity; D013334:Students; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000523:psychology*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult