Politi Emanuele, Van Assche Jasper, Lüders Adrian, Sankaran Sindhuja, Anderson Joel, Green Eva G T
Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, Faculty of Psychology & Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102 B, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Laboratory of Social Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Curr Psychol. 2023 Jun 13:1-13. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04829-1.
Prosociality is often considered as quintessential in coping with the threats of health emergencies. As previous research has suggested, prosocial behaviors are shaped by both dispositional factors and situational cues about the helping situation. In the present research, we investigated whether "bonding" types of prosociality, helping directed towards close others within one's social network, and "bridging" types of prosociality, helping directed towards vulnerable people across group boundaries, are predicted by basic individual values and threat appraisals concerning COVID-19. During the pandemic, we conducted a cross-sectional study in the US and India ( = 954), using the Schwartz value inventory and a multifaceted measure of threat assessment to predict prosocial helping intentions. After controlling for other value and threat facets, self-transcendence values and threat for vulnerable groups uniquely predicted both bonding and bridging types of prosociality. Furthermore, threat for vulnerable groups partially mediated the effect of self-transcendence on prosocial helping intentions: People who endorsed self-transcendent values were particularly concerned by the effect of the pandemic on vulnerable groups, and thus willing to engage in prosocial behaviours to help those in need. Our findings support the idea that prosociality is stimulated by empathic concerns towards others in need and underline the importance for future research to consider the broad spectrum of threats appraised by people during health emergencies.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-023-04829-1.
亲社会行为通常被认为是应对健康紧急情况威胁的关键要素。正如先前研究所表明的，亲社会行为既受性格因素影响，也受关于帮助情境的情境线索影响。在本研究中，我们调查了“联结型”亲社会行为（即针对社交网络中亲密他人的帮助行为）和“桥梁型”亲社会行为（即针对跨越群体边界的弱势群体的帮助行为）是否由关于新冠疫情的基本个人价值观和威胁评估所预测。在疫情期间，我们在美国和印度（N = 954）进行了一项横断面研究，使用施瓦茨价值量表和多维度威胁评估指标来预测亲社会帮助意图。在控制了其他价值观和威胁因素后，自我超越价值观以及对弱势群体的威胁能够独特地预测联结型和亲社会行为。此外，对弱势群体的威胁部分中介了自我超越对亲社会帮助意图的影响：认同自我超越价值观的人尤其关注疫情对弱势群体的影响，因此愿意参与亲社会行为来帮助那些需要帮助的人。我们的研究结果支持了亲社会行为是由对有需要的他人的共情关注所激发的观点，并强调了未来研究考虑人们在健康紧急情况期间所评估的广泛威胁范围的重要性。
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