How Learning Styles Predict Charitableness via Emotional Management

The existing research on charitableness focuses on the consequences of the charitable behavior, rather than its determinants. In this paper, we focus on Jackson’s Learning Profiles, and suggest that when assessed through learning profiles, emotional management accounts for the values of benevolence and universalism, which are values commonly associated with charitableness. A cohort of university students participated in a study that examined related hypotheses suggesting that learning profiles in personality can predict the charitable values of benevolence and universalism both directly and indirectly via emotional management. In the present study, general support of the hypotheses was established based on Jackson’s learning styles profiler. Hence, emotionally intelligent achievers directly predicted the charitable values of benevolence and universalism, and managing one’s own and understanding others’ emotions mediated the association between Learning Profiles and charitable values.