Mindfulness Promotes Online Prosocial Behavior via Cognitive Empathy

Lv, Yiqing; Qiao, Xiuqing; Leng, Jie; Zheng, Yuanhua; Guo, Qingke

doi:10.3390/ijerph18137017

Cited by 9 publications

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“…Moreover, empathy-related neural activity (i.e., medial prefrontal cortex) contributed to the subsequent empathic concern toward the victim in need (Masten et al, 2011;Spencer-Rodgers et al, 2010;Perez-Bret et al, 2016). Consistently, high empathy people tend to predict high prosocial behavior under the COVID-19 threat (Taylor et al, 2020;Lv et al, 2021;Seong-Wook et al, 2021). Accordingly, we speculated that individuals with high vs. low empathy might generate more prosocial emotions (i.e., sympathetic) toward people in need (e.g., COVID-19 patients) during COVID-19.…”

Section: Empathy and Social Emotionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Trait Empathy Modulates Patterns of Personal and Social Emotions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Zhu

Chen

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused profound consequences on people’s personal and social feelings worldwide. However, little is known about whether individual differences in empathy, a prosocial trait, may affect the emotional feelings under such threat. To address this, we measured 345 Chinese participants’ personal emotions (e.g., active, nervous), social emotions (i.e., fearful and empathetic feelings about various social groups), and their empathy traits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the representational similarity analysis (RSA), we calculated the pattern similarity of personal emotions and found the similarity between the positive and negative emotions was less in the high vs. low empathy groups. In addition, people with high (vs. low) empathy traits were more likely to have fearful and sympathetic feelings about the disease-related people (i.e., depression patients, suspected COVID-19 patients, COVID-19 patients, flu patients, SARS patients, AIDS patients, schizophrenic patients) and showed more pattern dissimilarity in the two social feelings toward the disease-related people. These findings suggest a prominent role of trait empathy in modulating emotions across different domains, strengthening the polarization of personal emotions as well as enlarging social feelings toward a set of stigmatized groups when facing a pandemic threat.

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Section: Empathy and Social Emotionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Trait Empathy Modulates Patterns of Personal and Social Emotions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Zhu

Chen

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…To reduce the spread of COVID-19, young adult college students must have empathy for others and be able to think and feel outside of their individual experiences and risk factors. In addition, cognitive empathy has been linked to prosocial outcomes including emotional regulation, mindfulness, and affective perspective-taking [ 15 , 16 , 17 ]. Understanding the interplay between anxiety/depression and cognitive empathy can help us explore effective interventions to help alleviate students’ mental health symptoms while bolstering their civic engagement and connections to and care for others.…”

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College Students’ Reduced Cognitive Empathy and Increased Anxiety and Depression before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Peifer

Taasoobshirazi

2022

IJERPH

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This study explored college students’ individual mental health (i.e., anxious and depressive symptoms, intrapersonal identity, and ethnic identity), as well as interpersonal mental health, as assessed by their affective connection to and care for others (i.e., cognitive empathy), exploring the role of culture and identity during the twin COVID-19 and racial justice pandemics of 2020. Comparing a longitudinal cohort of 147 undergraduate students’ experiences prior to the pandemic (Spring 2019) and after the onset of the pandemic (Spring 2021), the study examines students’ mental health changes amidst the multi-layered challenges of this time. A repeated measures Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) revealed heightened anxiety and depression scores from pre-pandemic to during the pandemic and a reduction in cognitive empathy as expressed through perspective taking and empathic concern. The study begins to examine the implications of these findings in the COVID-19 era with a focus on young adult mental health, higher education, empathy, and community-mindedness.

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“…As a kind of positive emotion, self‐compassion motivates people to recognize that all people have an intimate connection and need to care for each other (K. D. Neff & Seppälä, 2016). In this way, people with high self‐compassion tend to engage in more prosocial behaviors both in the offline and online environment (Lv et al, 2021; Yang et al, 2016), which helps to improve their well‐being. During the time of the COVID‐19 pandemic, face‐to‐face interaction is constrained by the social distancing guidelines.…”

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“…Previous studies have scarcely explored how different positive emotions interact to promote individual engagement in OPB. Positive emotions such as self‐compassion and gratitude are protective factors of positive interpersonal behavior such as OPB (Jiang et al, 2017; Lv et al, 2021). Based on the protective‐protective model (Li et al, 2013; Zeng et al, 2020b), different protective factors will interact with each other to predict outcome variables.…”

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Self‐compassion and subjective well‐being: A moderated mediation model of online prosocial behavior and gratitude

Zeng

Nie

Geng

et al. 2022

Psychology in the Schools

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Previous studies have shown that personal factors serve as mediators in the link between self‐compassion and subjective well‐being (SWB). However, these studies have neglected the possibility that online prosocial behavior (OPB) may serve as a mediator in the link between self‐compassion and SWB. Based on the PERMA theory of well‐being and the protective‐protective model, the current study examined whether OPB would mediate the association between self‐compassion and individual SWB, and whether gratitude would moderate the association between self‐compassion and OPB. A valid sample of 1488 college students (Mage = 19.84; SD = 1.61) filled out questionnaires regarding demographics, self‐compassion, OPB, gratitude, and SWB. Results showed that, after controlling for gender, age, daily online time, and social desirability, OPB mediated the association between self‐compassion and individual SWB, and gratitude strengthened the positive association between self‐compassion and OPB. These findings reveal that high self‐compassionate and grateful people can enhance their subjective well‐being through behaving prosocially online.

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Mindfulness Promotes Online Prosocial Behavior via Cognitive Empathy

Cited by 9 publications

References 44 publications

Trait Empathy Modulates Patterns of Personal and Social Emotions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Trait Empathy Modulates Patterns of Personal and Social Emotions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

College Students’ Reduced Cognitive Empathy and Increased Anxiety and Depression before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Self‐compassion and subjective well‐being: A moderated mediation model of online prosocial behavior and gratitude

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