Editing Power distance (section)

====Influence of controllable/uncontrollable needs====
The types of needs influence people's charitable behavior regardless of their power distance backgrounds. The needs generated are classified into controllable and uncontrollable categories, where the occurrence of the former is due to a lack of effort, while the latter occurs from unforeseeable events such as natural disasters. The ability of whether individuals are able to control the situations affects how they will react to the rising needs.<ref name="Betancourt">{{Cite journal|last=Betancourt |first=Hector |year=1990 |title=An Attribution–Empathy Model of Helping Behavior: Behavioral Intentions and Judgments of Help-Giving |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=573–591|doi=10.1177/0146167290163015 |journal=Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin|s2cid=144925139 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Brickman, Philip |author2=Rabinowitz, Vita Carulli |author3=Karuza, Jurgis Jr |author4=Coates, Dan |author5=Cohn, Ellen |author6=Kidder, Louise  |name-list-style=amp |year=1982 |title=Models of Helping and Coping |journal=American Psychologist |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=368–384 |id={{ERIC|EJ262702}} |doi=10.1037/0003-066x.37.4.368}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author=Shaver, Kelly G. |year=1985 |title=The Attribution of Blame: Causality, Responsibility, and Blameworthiness |location=New York |publisher=Springer Verlag|isbn=978-0-387-96120-0}}</ref>

The level of power distance influences a society's reaction towards controllable needs. People with high power distance backgrounds perceive most of the issues as rightful inequality, and are reluctant to get themselves involved with "troubles", and usually ignore them. Conversely, low power distance societies are intolerant with unfairness and are more likely to make an effort in eliminating dissonance in every possibility.<ref name="Winterich" />

People tend to be more responsive and willing to assist when others suffer from uncontrollable circumstances. It is assumed that people consider that the aid for uncontrollable needs will not greatly change societal rightful inequality, and hence generous assistance and help will be offered to those in need regardless of power distance background.<ref name="Betancourt" /><ref name="Skitka">{{Cite journal|author1=Skitka, Linda J.|author2=Tetlock, Philip E.|year=1992|title=Allocating Scarce Resources: A Contingency Model of Distributive Justice|journal=Journal of Experimental Social Psychology|volume=28|issue=6|pages=491–522|doi=10.1016/0022-1031(92)90043-J|name-list-style=amp}}</ref><ref name="Karasawa">{{Cite journal|author=Karasawa, Kaori |year=1991 |title=The Effects of Onset and Offset Responsibility on Affects and Helping Judgments |journal=Journal of Applied Social Psychology |volume=21 |issue=6 |pages=482–499 |doi=10.1111/j.1559-1816.1991.tb00532.x }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Lerner Melvin J. |author2=Reavy Patricia | year = 1975 | title = Locus of Control, Perceived Responsibility for Prior Fate, and Helping Behavior | journal = Journal of Research in Personality | volume = 9 | issue = 1| pages = 1–20 | doi=10.1016/0092-6566(75)90029-x}}</ref> In such circumstances, a sense of duty is more likely to be raised, where people tend to undertake charitable behaviors.<ref name="Winterich" />