Institute of Psychology, The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Institute of Psychology, Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland.
PLoS One. 2024 Sep 18;19(9):e0310511. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0310511. eCollection 2024.
The time after the COVID-19 pandemic posed a threat to engagement in prosocial behaviors within charity organizations. In the current study, we intended to test how three motivational paths: affective empathy-based, life satisfaction-based, and perceived social support-based shaped the change in intentions to give money and time to charity organizations over a yearly period (right after revocation of the most essential anti-COVID-19 laws and at the same time, outbreak of the war in Ukraine in 2022, in May 2022 and after a year, in late April-early May 2023). We also tested how past negative and present hedonistic time perspectives-namely, those most robust in predicting emotional states - shaped the changes in the abovementioned motivational paths and giving intentions. We conducted our longitudinal study on the general population of Poland (N = 566). We found that there has been a significant drop in the willingness to give time to organizations over the year after loosening the COVID-19 restrictions and the outbreak of war in Ukraine. We found that affective empathy helped sustain the intentions to give time to organizations, whereas past negative time perspective contributed to the decrease in such intentions. Our study suggests threats to organizations and highlights potential ways to encourage supporting them and caring for their volunteers' well-being.
新冠疫情大流行对慈善组织中亲社会行为的参与构成了威胁。在本研究中，我们旨在测试三种动机途径：基于情感同理心、基于生活满意度和基于感知社会支持，如何在一年内（即在取消最重要的反 COVID-19 法律之后，以及 2022 年乌克兰战争爆发之时、2023 年 4 月下旬至 5 月上旬）塑造向慈善组织捐款和捐时的意愿变化。我们还测试了过去的消极和现在的享乐主义时间观——即最能预测情绪状态的时间观——如何塑造上述动机途径和捐赠意愿的变化。我们在波兰的一般人群中进行了纵向研究（N=566）。我们发现，在 COVID-19 限制放松和乌克兰战争爆发后的一年里，人们向组织提供时间的意愿显著下降。我们发现情感同理心有助于维持向组织提供时间的意愿，而过去的消极时间观则导致这种意愿的下降。我们的研究表明了对组织的威胁，并强调了鼓励支持组织和关心其志愿者福祉的潜在途径。
