Table 2 Overview of all identified categories and subcategories from participant interviews
From: Medical students’ perceptions of prosocial behaviors: a grounded theory study in China
Categories | Subcategories | Themes |
|---|---|---|
Personal values | Self-Transcendence value | • Benevolence: sense of meaning, sense of value, helpfulness, responsibility • Universal values: fairness, equality |
Conservation value | • Self-protection • Risk perception | |
Socialist value | • Chinese core socialist values | |
Narrow personality traits | Empathy | • sympathy • put oneself in someone else's shoes |
Resilience | • Self-regulation • Positive mindset | |
Moral sensitivity | • Awareness • Knowing a better way to do things | |
Mutual help and reciprocity | • Positive motivation • Goodwill transfer, positive circulation | |
Perceived self-competence | Perceived self-competence | • Experience • Knowledge required for behavior |
Career motivation | Social and altruistic motivation | • To save lives and help the sick and injured • Career pursuit • Passion for medicine • Helping others |
Money and prestige motivation | • To provide for the family • Economic motivation • performance appraisal • Work within the division • Development and promotion | |
Environmental factors | School environment | • Prosocial activities • Humanistic education • Role model education |
Organizational environment | • Policy development • Occupational stress | |
Family influences | Family education | • Teach by word • Teach by example |
Family atmosphere | • Family support • Caring for each other |