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Title: | To Help or Not to Help? Prosocial Behavior, Its Association With Well-Being, and Predictors of Prosocial Behavior During the Coronavirus Disease Pandemic | Authors: | Haller, Elisa Lubenko, Jelena Presti, Giovambattista Squatrito, Valeria Constantinou, Marios Nicolaou, Christiana Papacostas, Savvas S. Aydin, Gökçen Chong, Yuen Yu Chien, Wai Tong Cheng, Ho Yu Ruiz, Francisco J. Garcia-Martin, Maria B. Obando-Posada, Diana P. Segura-Vargas, Miguel A. Vasiliou, Vasilis S. McHugh, Louise Höfer, Stefan Baban, Adriana Neto, David Dias Nunes da Silva, Ana Monestès, Jean-Louis Alvarez-Galvez, Javier Paez-Blarrina, Marisa Montesinos, Francisco Valdivia-Salas, Sonsoles Ori, Dorottya Kleszcz, Bartosz Lappalainen, Raimo Ivanov, Aleksandr Gosar, David Dionne, Frederick Merwin, Rhonda M. Karekla, Maria Kassianos, Angelos P. Gloster, Andrew |
Major Field of Science: | Medical and Health Sciences | Field Category: | Health Sciences | Keywords: | COVID-19 pandemic;well-being;social support;prosocial behavior;predictors of prosocial behavior | Issue Date: | 11-Feb-2022 | Source: | Frontiers in Psychology, 2022, vol.12 | Volume: | 12 | Journal: | Frontiers in Psychology | Abstract: | The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic fundamentally disrupted humans' social life and behavior. Public health measures may have inadvertently impacted how people care for each other. This study investigated prosocial behavior, its association well-being, and predictors of prosocial behavior during the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and sought to understand whether region-specific differences exist. Participants (N = 9,496) from eight regions clustering multiple countries around the world responded to a cross-sectional online-survey investigating the psychological consequences of the first upsurge of lockdowns in spring 2020. Prosocial behavior was reported to occur frequently. Multiple regression analyses showed that prosocial behavior was associated with better well-being consistently across regions. With regard to predictors of prosocial behavior, high levels of perceived social support were most strongly associated with prosocial behavior, followed by high levels of perceived stress, positive affect and psychological flexibility. Sociodemographic and psychosocial predictors of prosocial behavior were similar across regions. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/27437 | ISSN: | 16641078 | DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.775032 | Rights: | Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | Type: | Article | Affiliation : | University of Basel Riga Stradins University Kore University of Enna University of Nicosia Cyprus University of Technology Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics Hasan Kalyoncu University The Chinese University of Hong Kong Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz Universidad de La Sabana University of Oxford University College Dublin Innsbruck Medical University Babeş-Bolyai University Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Université Grenoble Alpes University of Cádiz Instituto ACT European University of Madrid University of Zaragoza Heim Pal National Pediatric Institute Semmelweis University Bartosz Kleszcz Psychotherapy and Training University of Jyväskylä Clinical Centre of Montenegro University Medical Center Ljubljana Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Duke University University of Cyprus |
Publication Type: | Peer Reviewed |
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