Yang Chen
School of Physical Education, Qilu Normal University, Jinan, China.
Front Psychol. 2025 Jun 2;16:1601936. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1601936. eCollection 2025.
Previous research has explored how time scarcity mindset influences prosocial behavior; however, the results have been inconsistent. The current research aimed to introduce benefit frames to examine the effect of time scarcity mindset on prosocial behavior. Inspired by the proposal that time scarcity mindset strengthens agentic (i.e., self-oriented) goals while weakening communal (i.e., other-oriented) goals, we assumed that benefit frames would moderate the impact of time scarcity mindset on prosocial behavior. We conducted a survey study ( = 282 participants) and an experimental study ( = 299 participants) to test this assumption. Our results indicated that under an others-benefit frame (i.e., benefits only to others), time scarcity mindset inhibited prosocial behavior, whereas this effect was attenuated under a self-and-other benefit frame (benefits to both oneself and others). These findings not only deepen our understanding of the effects of time scarcity mindset but also offer practical insights into how to mitigate its detrimental effect on prosocial behavior.
以往的研究探讨了时间稀缺心态如何影响亲社会行为；然而，结果并不一致。当前的研究旨在引入利益框架来检验时间稀缺心态对亲社会行为的影响。受时间稀缺心态强化自主（即自我导向）目标而削弱共融（即他人导向）目标这一观点的启发，我们假设利益框架会调节时间稀缺心态对亲社会行为的影响。我们进行了一项调查研究（n = 282名参与者）和一项实验研究（n = 299名参与者）来检验这一假设。我们的结果表明，在他人受益框架（即仅对他人有益）下，时间稀缺心态会抑制亲社会行为，而在自我与他人受益框架（对自己和他人都有益）下，这种影响会减弱。这些发现不仅加深了我们对时间稀缺心态影响的理解，还为如何减轻其对亲社会行为的不利影响提供了实际见解。
