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

The interplay of traits and motives on volunteering: agreeableness, extraversion and prosocial value motivation

“…In much of the previous research on prosocial behaviors, measures of relatively specifi c traits or sociocognitive skills such as empathy, sympathy, and perspective taking have been employed (e.g., Allen & Rushton, 1983;Batson, 1999;Carlo et al, 1999;Knight et al, 1994). However, the present study provides evidence of the link between global trait measures and volunteerism.…”

“…However, volunteerism may be jointly determined by whether there is a match between the personality traits associated with volunteerism and the motives that are most salient (Carlo, Allen, & Buhman, 1999;Clary & Snyder, 1999). For example, extraverted individuals may be more likely to volunteer than introverted individuals only when their prosocial value motivation is high.…”

Participation in Voluntary Associations: Relations with Resources, Personality, and Political Values

“…Verba, Schlozman, and Brady (1995) and Inglehart (1977Inglehart ( , 1996 have shown that interest in politics and postmaterialism increase civic engagement. Personality and social psychologists, on the other hand, are interested in civic engagement, and especially in volunteering behaviors, as an expression of prosocial dispositions such as extraversion, agreeableness, and empathy (Carlo, Allen, & Buhman, 1999;Elshaug & Metzer, 2001;Penner & Finkelstein, 1998;Smith, 1966). Others have investigated the relationship of civic engagement to moral reasoning (Muhlberger, 2000), self-esteem, and locus of control (Cohen, Vigoda, & Samorly, 2001).…”

Entrepreneurial Cognition

“…This compassion can include empathetic listening to other organizational members' problems (Frost 2003), sympathetic emotions (Carlo et al 1999), and executing large-scale reactions to unanticipated traumatic events (Dutton et al 2006). Mostly seen as an important and positive force in firms (Kanov et al 2004), scholars have explored compassion at numerous levels of analysis; these levels include individuals' compassion for others (Nussbaum 1996), compassion as an interpersonal, people-connecting process (Kanov et al 2004), and the ways people unite to deliver an organized compassionate organizational response (e.g., compassion organizing (Dutton et al 2006) and compassion venturing Williams and Shepherd 2016)).…”