'Yeah, this is my donation': An application of psychological ownership in blood donation.

IF 2.5 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Journal of Health Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-12 DOI:10.1177/13591053241254581

Abigail R-A Edwards, Rachel Thorpe, Barbara M Masser, Fiona Kate Barlow

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Abstract

To meet the priority healthcare needs of any population there must be a consistently available blood supply donated by willing donors. Due to this universal need for blood, retaining blood donors remains an ongoing challenge for blood services internationally. Encouraging psychological ownership, or the feeling of ownership one experiences over a possession, provides a potential novel solution to donor retention. This study, based on semi-structured interviews with blood donors, investigates how donors perceive and develop psychological ownership in the context of blood donation. Interviews were conducted in Australia with 20 current blood donors (10 men, 10 women; M_age = 41.95). Through thematic analysis, six themes were identified based primarily on the theoretical framework of psychological ownership. This research offers a novel perspective on donor retention, suggesting that donors' ownership over their individual donation practices, and not the blood service, may contribute to maintaining a stable blood supply.

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是的，这是我的捐赠"：心理所有权在献血中的应用。

要满足任何人群的优先医疗保健需求，就必须持续提供由自愿献血者捐献的血液供应。由于对血液的普遍需求，留住献血者仍是国际血液服务机构面临的一项持续挑战。鼓励心理所有权，或一个人对自己拥有的物品的所有权感，为留住献血者提供了一个潜在的新解决方案。本研究基于对献血者进行的半结构式访谈，调查了献血者在献血过程中如何看待和发展心理所有权。研究人员在澳大利亚对 20 名献血者（10 名男性，10 名女性；年龄 = 41.95）进行了访谈。通过主题分析，主要根据心理所有权的理论框架确定了六个主题。这项研究为留住献血者提供了一个新的视角，表明献血者对其个人献血行为而非血液服务的所有权可能有助于维持稳定的血液供应。

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Journal of Health Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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期刊介绍： ournal of Health Psychology is an international peer-reviewed journal that aims to support and help shape research in health psychology from around the world. It provides a platform for traditional empirical analyses as well as more qualitative and/or critically oriented approaches. It also addresses the social contexts in which psychological and health processes are embedded. Studies published in this journal are required to obtain ethical approval from an Institutional Review Board. Such approval must include informed, signed consent by all research participants. Any manuscript not containing an explicit statement concerning ethical approval and informed consent will not be considered.