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No man is an island: Psychological underpinnings of prosociality in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak()
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, sustainable forms of collective resilience help societies coping cohesively with unprecedented challenges. In our empirical contribution, we framed collective resilience and cohesion in terms of prosociality. A study carried out in the midst of the COVID-19 outb...
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Elsevier Ltd.
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9059136/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35529044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110534 |
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author | Politi, Emanuele Van Assche, Jasper Caprara, Gian Vittorio Phalet, Karen |
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description | In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, sustainable forms of collective resilience help societies coping cohesively with unprecedented challenges. In our empirical contribution, we framed collective resilience and cohesion in terms of prosociality. A study carried out in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK (N = 399) articulated basic individual values, ideological orientations (i.e., authoritarianism and social dominance orientation), and core political values in a comprehensive framework to predict bonding and bridging forms of prosocial intentions, and prosocial behaviors directed towards vulnerable groups. According to our findings, people whose worldview incorporates collective and collaborative principles cared more about others' welfare. Jointly, self-transcendence, equality, and accepting immigrants predicted more prosociality, whereas social dominance orientation predicted less prosociality. Over and beyond all other predictors, self-transcendence uniquely predicted prosocial intentions and behaviors alike. To conclude, we suggest interventions to promote and sustain prosociality among people motivated by a larger array of life goals and worldviews. |
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spelling | pubmed-90591362022-05-02 No man is an island: Psychological underpinnings of prosociality in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak() Politi, Emanuele Van Assche, Jasper Caprara, Gian Vittorio Phalet, Karen Pers Individ Dif Article In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, sustainable forms of collective resilience help societies coping cohesively with unprecedented challenges. In our empirical contribution, we framed collective resilience and cohesion in terms of prosociality. A study carried out in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK (N = 399) articulated basic individual values, ideological orientations (i.e., authoritarianism and social dominance orientation), and core political values in a comprehensive framework to predict bonding and bridging forms of prosocial intentions, and prosocial behaviors directed towards vulnerable groups. According to our findings, people whose worldview incorporates collective and collaborative principles cared more about others' welfare. Jointly, self-transcendence, equality, and accepting immigrants predicted more prosociality, whereas social dominance orientation predicted less prosociality. Over and beyond all other predictors, self-transcendence uniquely predicted prosocial intentions and behaviors alike. To conclude, we suggest interventions to promote and sustain prosociality among people motivated by a larger array of life goals and worldviews. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-03 2020-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9059136/ /pubmed/35529044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110534 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Politi, Emanuele Van Assche, Jasper Caprara, Gian Vittorio Phalet, Karen No man is an island: Psychological underpinnings of prosociality in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak() |
title | No man is an island: Psychological underpinnings of prosociality in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak() |
title_full | No man is an island: Psychological underpinnings of prosociality in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak() |
title_fullStr | No man is an island: Psychological underpinnings of prosociality in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak() |
title_full_unstemmed | No man is an island: Psychological underpinnings of prosociality in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak() |
title_short | No man is an island: Psychological underpinnings of prosociality in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak() |
title_sort | no man is an island: psychological underpinnings of prosociality in the midst of the covid-19 outbreak() |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9059136/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35529044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110534 |
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