Facilitating and Disinhibiting Prosocial Behaviors: The Nonlinear Interaction of Trait Perspective Taking and Trait Personal Distress on Volunteering

Carlo, Gustavo; Allen, James B.; Buhman, Dion C.

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“…Dispositional empathic concern, as measured by the IRI, has also been linked to higher levels of self-reported charitable giving [9] and greater self-reported concern for the welfare of others [10]. In terms of associations between cognitive components of empathy and prosocial behaviour, studies have focused on correlating the perspective-taking subscale of the IRI to self-reported prosocial behaviour and have found that trait perspective taking is positively associated with frequency of volunteering [11] and self-reported prosocial tendencies [12]. It should be noted, however, that the empathic concern and perspective taking scales of the IRI tap constructs that, although related, are different from the current conceptualisation of ‘affective’ and ‘cognitive empathy’ [2].…”

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“…[8], [11]) and the proposal that individual differences in emotion regulation may moderate associations between empathy and prosocial behaviour [14], [15], this has not, to our knowledge, been directly examined. Moreover, how distinct emotion regulation strategies might moderate associations between empathy and prosocial behaviour has not been explored.…”

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Emotion Regulation Moderates the Association between Empathy and Prosocial Behavior

2014

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Theory and evidence suggest that empathy is an important motivating factor for prosocial behaviour and that emotion regulation, i.e. the capacity to exert control over an emotional response, may moderate the degree to which empathy is associated with prosocial behaviour. However, studies to date have not simultaneously explored the associations between different empathic processes and prosocial behaviour, nor whether different types of emotion regulation strategies (e.g. cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) moderate associations between empathy and prosocial behaviour. One hundred–and-ten healthy adults completed questionnaire measures of empathy, emotion regulation and prosocial tendencies. In this sample, both affective and cognitive empathy predicted self-reported prosocial tendencies. In addition, cognitive reappraisal moderated the association between affective empathy and prosocial tendencies. Specifically, there was a significant positive association between empathy and prosocial tendencies for individuals with a low or average tendency to reappraise but not for those with a high tendency to reappraise. Our findings suggest that, in general, empathy is positively associated with prosocial behaviour. However, this association is not significant for individuals with a high tendency for cognitive reappraisal.

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Emotion Regulation Moderates the Association between Empathy and Prosocial Behavior

2014

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“…Additionally, in order to check whether the extent of gift giving and the types of solidarity behavior classified by Selten and Ockenfels correspond to measures used in social science, we introduce a structured questionnaire on personality characteristics of pro-social behavior corresponding to the interpersonal reactivity index, IRI (Davis, 1980(Davis, , 1983. The IRI is in common use in sociopsychological studies on pro-social behavior, that is behavior that is intended to benefit other people (Carlo et al, 1999).…”

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Self-centered and other-regarding behavior in the solidarity game

Büchner

Coricelli

Greiner

2007

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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This paper revisits the experiment on the solidarity game by Selten and Ockenfels [Selten, R., Ockenfels, A., 1998. An experimental solidarity game. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 34, 517-539]. We replicate the basic design and extend it to test the robustness of the 'fixed total sacrifice' effect and the applied strategy method. Our results only partially confirm the validity of the fixed total sacrifice effect. In a treatment with constant group endowment rather than constant winner endowment, the predominance of 'fixed total sacrifice' behavior is replaced by 'fixed relative gift' behavior. We do not find correlations between actual gift behavior and measures of empathy-driven pro-social behavior used in social science.

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“…Currently several researchers highlighted the role of traits (''dimensions of individual differences in tendencies to show consistent patterns of thought, feelings, and actions''; McCrae & Costa, 1990, p. 23) and values (cognitive representations of desirable, abstract, trans-situational goals that serve as guiding principles in peoples' lives; Schwartz, 1992) in political and civic actions (e.g., Carlo, Allen, & Buhman, 1999). Bekkers and De Graaf (2002) found that openness was related with participation in nonconventional political activities.…”

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The Mediational Role of Values in Linking Personality Traits to Civic Engagement in Italian Youth

Kanacri

Rosa

Giunta

2012

Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community

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In recent decades, given new forms of political participation, the involvement of young people in the civic domain begins to be a focus of many studies. The present study examined the role of personality traits and personal values in the prediction of civic engagement (CE) in Italian youth ranging in age from 19 to 29 years old involved in an ongoing longitudinal study. The multidimensionality of a scale tapping CE has been demonstrated with the examination of confirmatory factor analysis. Structural equation modeling corroborated a mediational model in which benevolence fully mediated the relationship of the traits of agreeableness and openness with civic associationism, whereas power fully mediated the relationship of the traits of agreeableness and openness with political associationism. In this mediational model men reported higher levels of power than women, whereas women reported higher levels of agreeableness and openness traits. Since basic personal traits have been identified as the root of any behavioral tendency and values have been recognized as the more flexible and changeable variables, future interventions aimed to foster CE in youth could be designed considering the strength relationship between the examined dimensions in the present study.

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Facilitating and Disinhibiting Prosocial Behaviors: The Nonlinear Interaction of Trait Perspective Taking and Trait Personal Distress on Volunteering

Cited by 21 publications

References 14 publications

Emotion Regulation Moderates the Association between Empathy and Prosocial Behavior

Emotion Regulation Moderates the Association between Empathy and Prosocial Behavior

Self-centered and other-regarding behavior in the solidarity game

The Mediational Role of Values in Linking Personality Traits to Civic Engagement in Italian Youth

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