Prosociality During COVID-19: Pathways Through Affect, Financial Stress, Well-being, and Collective Disempowerment across 39 Countries

Prosocialidad durante COVID-19: Rutas a través del afecto, estrés financiero, bienestar y desempoderamiento colectivo en 39 países
Zúñiga C. Agostini M. Louis W.R. Lemay E.P., Jr. Bélanger J.J. Gützkow B. Jeronimus B.F. Kreienkamp J. vanDellen M.R. Abakoumkin G. Khaiyom J.H.A. Ahmedi V. Akkas H. Almenara C.A. Atta M. Bagci S.C. Basel S. Kida E.B. Bernardo A.B.I. Buttrick N.R. Chobthamkit P. Choi H.-S. Cristea M. Csaba S. Damnjanović K. Danyliuk I. Dash A. Di Santo D. Douglas K.M. Enea V. Faller D.G. Fitzsimons G. Gheorghiu A. Gómez Á. Hamaidia A. Han Q. Helmy M. Hudiyana J. Jiang D.-Y. Jovanović V. Kamenov Ž. Kende A. Keng S.-L. Kieu T.T.T. Koc Y. Kovyazina K. Krause J. Kruglanski A.W. Kurapov A. Lantos N.A. Lesmana C.B.J. Lueders A. Malik N.I. Martinez A. McCabe K.O. Milla M.N. Molinario E. Moyano M. Muhammad H. Mula S. Muluk H. Myroniuk S. Najafi R. Nisa C.F. Nyúl B. O’Keefe P.A. Osuna J.J.O. Osin E.N. Park J. Pica G. Pierro A. Rees J. Reitsema A.M. Resta E. Rullo M. Ryan M.K. Santtila P. Schumpe B.M. Selim H.A. Stanton M.V. Sutton R.M. Tseliou E. Utsugi A. Van Lissa C.J. Van Veen K. Vázquez A. Wollast R. Yeung V.W.-L. Zand S. Žeželj I.L. Zheng B. Zick A. Leander N.P.
2024 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Universitas Psychologica
2024 #23 1 - 21 pp.

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.

afecto , affect , bienestar , collective disempowerment , comportamiento prosocial , COVID-19 , desempoderamiento colectivo , prosocial behavior , well-being

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International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia
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Universidad de Chile
University of Groningen
University of Queensland
University of Maryland
Carnegie Mellon University in
Stephenson Cancer Center
University of Thessaly
International Islamic University Malaysia
Pristine University
Ankara Science University
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
University of Sargodha
Sabanci University
New York University
De La Salle University
University of Virginia
Thammasat University
Sungkyunkwan University
Heriot Watt University
ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
University of Belgrade
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
University “La Sapienza”
University of Kent
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
National University of Singapore
Duke University
Universidad Nacional de Educación
Mohamed Lamine Debaghine Setif 2 University
University of Bristol
Sultan Qaboos University
Universitas Indonesia
National Chung-Cheng University
University of Novi
University of Zagreb
Monash University Malaysia
HCMC University of Education
Nazarbayev University
Udayana University
University of Limerick
University of Sheffield
Carleton University
Florida Gulf Coast University
University of Cordoba
University of Peshawar
University of Groningen
University of Padova
Duke Kunshan University
Yale-NUS College
National Distance Education University (UNED)
University of Paris
Kyoto University
University of Camerino
University of Bielefeld
University of Siena
The Australian National University
New York University
University of Amsterdam
King Saud University
California State University
Nagoya University
Utrecht University
Université Clermont-Auvergne
Lingnan University
University of Milano-Bicocca
Peking University
Bielefeld University
Wayne State University

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