Dispositional Awe and Online Altruism: Testing a Moderated Mediating Model

Dispositional awe has a positive effect on prosociality. However, it has not been tested whether this disposition appears in online altruism. Using a large sample of 3,080 Chinese undergraduates, this study tested a moderated mediating model that takes self-transcendent meaning in life (STML) as a m...

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Autores principales: Lin, RongMao, Chen, YanPing, Shen, YiLin, Xiong, XiaXin, Lin, Nan, Lian, Rong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8371932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34421740
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.688591
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author Lin, RongMao
Chen, YanPing
Shen, YiLin
Xiong, XiaXin
Lin, Nan
Lian, Rong
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description Dispositional awe has a positive effect on prosociality. However, it has not been tested whether this disposition appears in online altruism. Using a large sample of 3,080 Chinese undergraduates, this study tested a moderated mediating model that takes self-transcendent meaning in life (STML) as a mediator and subjective socioeconomic status (SSES) as a moderator. As predicted, dispositional awe was positively correlated with online altruism, partly via the indirect effect of STML. SSES moderated both the direct and indirect effects. Specifically, the predictive effects of dispositional awe on both online prosocial behavior and STML were greater for lower rather than higher SSES. This study extends the prosociality of dispositional awe to cyberspace. Other implications are also discussed herein.
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spelling pubmed-83719322021-08-19 Dispositional Awe and Online Altruism: Testing a Moderated Mediating Model Lin, RongMao Chen, YanPing Shen, YiLin Xiong, XiaXin Lin, Nan Lian, Rong Front Psychol Psychology Dispositional awe has a positive effect on prosociality. However, it has not been tested whether this disposition appears in online altruism. Using a large sample of 3,080 Chinese undergraduates, this study tested a moderated mediating model that takes self-transcendent meaning in life (STML) as a mediator and subjective socioeconomic status (SSES) as a moderator. As predicted, dispositional awe was positively correlated with online altruism, partly via the indirect effect of STML. SSES moderated both the direct and indirect effects. Specifically, the predictive effects of dispositional awe on both online prosocial behavior and STML were greater for lower rather than higher SSES. This study extends the prosociality of dispositional awe to cyberspace. Other implications are also discussed herein. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8371932/ /pubmed/34421740 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.688591 Text en Copyright © 2021 Lin, Chen, Shen, Xiong, Lin and Lian. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Lin, RongMao
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Xiong, XiaXin
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Dispositional Awe and Online Altruism: Testing a Moderated Mediating Model
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title_fullStr Dispositional Awe and Online Altruism: Testing a Moderated Mediating Model
title_full_unstemmed Dispositional Awe and Online Altruism: Testing a Moderated Mediating Model
title_short Dispositional Awe and Online Altruism: Testing a Moderated Mediating Model
title_sort dispositional awe and online altruism: testing a moderated mediating model
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8371932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34421740
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.688591
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