Prosociality During COVID-19: Pathways Through Affect, Financial Stress, Well-being, and Collective Disempowerment across 39 Countries
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In: Universitas Psychologica, Vol. 23, 2024, p. 1-21.
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T1 - Prosociality During COVID-19
T2 - Pathways Through Affect, Financial Stress, Well-being, and Collective Disempowerment across 39 Countries
AU - Author Collaboration of "Prosociality During COVID-19"
AU - Zúñiga, Claudia
AU - Agostini, Maximilian
AU - Louis, Winnifred R.
AU - Lemay, Edward P.
AU - Bélanger, Jocelyn J.
AU - Gützkow, Ben
AU - Jeronimus, Bertus F.
AU - Kreienkamp, Jannis
AU - vanDellen, Michelle R.
AU - Abakoumkin, Georgios
AU - Khaiyom, Jamilah Hanum Abdul
AU - Ahmedi, Vjollca
AU - Akkas, Handan
AU - Almenara, Carlos A.
AU - Atta, Mohsin
AU - Bagci, Sabahat Cigdem
AU - Basel, Sima
AU - Kida, Edona Berisha
AU - Bernardo, Allan B.I.
AU - Buttrick, Nicholas R.
AU - Chobthamkit, Phatthanakit
AU - Choi, Hoon Seok
AU - Cristea, Mioara
AU - Csaba, Sára
AU - Damnjanović, Kaja
AU - Danyliuk, Ivan
AU - Dash, Arobindu
AU - Di Santo, Daniela
AU - Douglas, Karen M.
AU - Enea, Violeta
AU - Faller, Daiane Gracieli
AU - Fitzsimons, Gavan
AU - Gheorghiu, Alexandra
AU - Gómez, Ángel
AU - Hamaidia, Ali
AU - Han, Qing
AU - Helmy, Mai
AU - Hudiyana, Joevarian
AU - Jiang, Ding Yu
AU - Jovanović, Veljko
AU - Kamenov, Željka
AU - Kende, Anna
AU - Keng, Shian Ling
AU - Kieu, Tra Thi Thanh
AU - Koc, Yasin
AU - Kovyazina, Kamila
AU - Krause, Joshua
AU - Kruglanski, Arie W.
AU - Kurapov, Anton
AU - Lantos, Nóra Anna
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © (2024), (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana). All rights reserved.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in great loss of life worldwide and shook the global economy, required individuals’ willingness and ability to behave prosocially. To contribute to the understanding of predictors of prosociality, we used multilevel models to test three previously established pathways to prosocial behavior, which we call the “broaden and build”, compensation, and incapacity pathways. We also tested whether these three paths are mediated by general wellbeing, and moderated by collective disempowerment, i.e., individuals’ belief that external societal forces have made it harder for people like them to function effectively. Participants from 39 countries (N= 59987) were surveyed on their willingness to engage in prosocial behaviors in the context of the pandemic. The “broaden and build” pathway was supported: positive affect was associated with willingness to engage in prosocial behavior via higher well-being. Two (in)capacity paths were also supported: financial strain and negative affect were both negatively associated with prosociality via lower well-being. A compensation pathway was also observed: Controlling for lower well-being, negative affect was associated with greater prosociality. Finally, differences in disempowerment moderated the affective pathways: higher disempowerment strengthened the positive association of positive affect with prosociality via well-being, and buffered the negative affect incapacity path.
AB - Overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in great loss of life worldwide and shook the global economy, required individuals’ willingness and ability to behave prosocially. To contribute to the understanding of predictors of prosociality, we used multilevel models to test three previously established pathways to prosocial behavior, which we call the “broaden and build”, compensation, and incapacity pathways. We also tested whether these three paths are mediated by general wellbeing, and moderated by collective disempowerment, i.e., individuals’ belief that external societal forces have made it harder for people like them to function effectively. Participants from 39 countries (N= 59987) were surveyed on their willingness to engage in prosocial behaviors in the context of the pandemic. The “broaden and build” pathway was supported: positive affect was associated with willingness to engage in prosocial behavior via higher well-being. Two (in)capacity paths were also supported: financial strain and negative affect were both negatively associated with prosociality via lower well-being. A compensation pathway was also observed: Controlling for lower well-being, negative affect was associated with greater prosociality. Finally, differences in disempowerment moderated the affective pathways: higher disempowerment strengthened the positive association of positive affect with prosociality via well-being, and buffered the negative affect incapacity path.
KW - afecto
KW - affect
KW - bienestar
KW - collective disempowerment
KW - comportamiento prosocial
KW - COVID-19
KW - desempoderamiento colectivo
KW - prosocial behavior
KW - well-being
KW - Psychology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105001384155&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.11144/JAVERIANA.UPSY23.PDCP
DO - 10.11144/JAVERIANA.UPSY23.PDCP
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:105001384155
VL - 23
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - Universitas Psychologica
JF - Universitas Psychologica
SN - 1657-9267
ER -