Serrano-Montilla Celia, Alonso-Ferres María, Navarro-Carrillo Ginés, Lozano Luis M, Valor-Segura Inmaculada
Department of Methodology for Behavioral Sciences, University of Granada, Spain.
Department of Social Psychology, University of Granada, Spain.
Pers Individ Dif. 2021 Aug;178:110855. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110855. Epub 2021 Mar 23.
This research aims to elucidate the connection of perceived health and financial threat linked to the COVID-19 pandemic with the willingness to engage in prosocial and antisocial behaviors, while also testing the potential mediating role of empathic concern. During the lockdown period, a sample of Spanish community members ( = 702) filled in a multi-measure online survey. Our results revealed that (a) COVID-19 health (but not financial) threat predicted a greater tendency to express prosocial actions, (b) none of these forms of COVID-19 threat predicted antisocial inclinations, and (c) empathic concern mediated the effects of COVID-19 health threat on both prosocial and antisocial tendencies. Findings speak to the ongoing debate about whether individuals most psychologically impacted by the pandemic would tend to respond in a more prosocial or antisocial manner.
本研究旨在阐明与新冠疫情相关的感知健康和经济威胁与亲社会及反社会行为意愿之间的联系，同时检验共情关注的潜在中介作用。在封锁期间，一组西班牙社区成员（N = 702）填写了一份多维度在线调查问卷。我们的结果显示：（a）新冠疫情的健康威胁（而非经济威胁）预示着更强烈的亲社会行为倾向；（b）这些形式的新冠疫情威胁均未预示反社会倾向；（c）共情关注介导了新冠疫情健康威胁对亲社会和反社会倾向的影响。研究结果为关于受疫情心理影响最大的个体是倾向于以更亲社会还是反社会方式做出反应的持续争论提供了依据。
