Pang YaLing, Song Chao, Ma Chao
School of Economics and Management, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China.
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Front Psychol. 2022 Feb 17;13:768827. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.768827. eCollection 2022.
With the development of positive psychology, prosocial behavior has received widespread attention from researchers. Some studies have shown that emotion has a significant influence on individual prosocial behavior, but little research has studied the effect of different types of empathy on college students' prosocial behaviors. The current study examined the mediating effects of gratitude among the associations between different types of empathy (perspective-taking, fantasy, empathic concern, and personal distress) and prosocial behavior among Chinese college students. For the study, we used the Prosocial Tendency Measurement questionnaire, the Hebrew version of Interpersonal Reactivity Index-C, and The Gratitude Questionnaire that investigated 1,037 participants. The results indicated that gratitude played a mediating role between perspective-taking and prosocial behavior, fantasy and prosocial behavior, empathic concern and prosocial behavior, and personal distress and prosocial behavior, respectively. The current study contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between empathy and prosocial behavior.
随着积极心理学的发展，亲社会行为受到了研究者的广泛关注。一些研究表明，情绪对个体的亲社会行为有显著影响，但很少有研究探讨不同类型的共情对大学生亲社会行为的影响。本研究考察了在中国大学生中，感恩在不同类型的共情（观点采择、幻想、移情关注和个人痛苦）与亲社会行为之间的中介作用。在本研究中，我们使用了亲社会倾向测量问卷、人际反应指针-C希伯来语版和感恩问卷，对1037名参与者进行了调查。结果表明，感恩分别在观点采择与亲社会行为、幻想与亲社会行为、移情关注与亲社会行为以及个人痛苦与亲社会行为之间起中介作用。本研究有助于更好地理解共情与亲社会行为之间的关系。
