Caprara Gian Vittorio, Alessandri Guido, DI Giunta Laura, Panerai Laura, Eisenberg Nancy
Department of Psychology, 'Sapienza' University of Rome, Italy.
Eur J Pers. 2009 Sep 22;24(1):36-55. doi: 10.1002/per.739.
The present study examined how agreeableness and self-efficacy beliefs about responding empathically to others' needs predict individuals' prosociality across time. Participants were 377 adolescents (66% males) aged 16 at Time 1 and 18 at Time 2 who took part at this study. Measures of agreeableness, empathic self-efficacy and prosociality were collected at two time points. The findings corroborated the posited paths of relations to assigning agreeableness a major role in predicting the level of individuals' prosociality. Empathic self-efficacy beliefs partially mediated the relation of agreeableness to prosociality. The posited conceptual model accounted for a significant portion of variance in prosociality and provides guidance with respect to interventions aimed at promoting prosociality.
本研究考察了关于共情回应他人需求的宜人性和自我效能信念如何随时间预测个体的亲社会行为。参与者为377名青少年(66%为男性),他们在时间1时16岁,在时间2时18岁,并参与了本研究。在两个时间点收集了宜人性、共情自我效能和亲社会行为的测量数据。研究结果证实了所假设的关系路径,即宜人性在预测个体亲社会行为水平方面起主要作用。共情自我效能信念部分中介了宜人性与亲社会行为之间的关系。所假设的概念模型解释了亲社会行为中很大一部分的变异,并为旨在促进亲社会行为的干预措施提供了指导。