@misc{10498/26563,
year = {2022},
month = {2},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26563},
abstract = {The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic fundamentally disrupted humans' social life and behavior. Public health measures may have inadvertently impacted how people care for each other. This study investigated prosocial behavior, its association well-being, and predictors of prosocial behavior during the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and sought to understand whether region-specific differences exist. Participants (N = 9,496) from eight regions clustering multiple countries around the world responded to a cross-sectional online-survey investigating the psychological consequences of the first upsurge of lockdowns in spring 2020. Prosocial behavior was reported to occur frequently. Multiple regression analyses showed that prosocial behavior was associated with better well-being consistently across regions. With regard to predictors of prosocial behavior, high levels of perceived social support were most strongly associated with prosocial behavior, followed by high levels of perceived stress, positive affect and psychological flexibility. Sociodemographic and psychosocial predictors of prosocial behavior were similar across regions.},
publisher = {FRONTIERS MEDIA SA},
keywords = {well-being},
keywords = {COVID-19 pandemic},
keywords = {predictors of prosocial behavior},
keywords = {social support},
title = {To Help or Not to Help? Prosocial Behavior, Its Association With Well-Being, and Predictors of Prosocial Behavior During the Coronavirus Disease Pandemic},
doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2021.775032},
author = {Haller, Elisa and Lubenko, Jelena and Presti, Giovambattista and Squatrito, Valeria and Constantinou, Marios and Nicolaou, Christiana and Papacostas, Savvas and Aydın, Gökçen and Chong, Yuen Yu and Chien, Wai Tong and Cheng, Ho Yu and Ruiz, Francisco J. and Garcia-Martin, Maria B. and Obando-Posada, Diana P. and Segura-Vargas, Miguel A. and Vasiliou, Vasilis S and McHugh, Louise and Höfer, Stefan and Baban, Adriana and Dias Neto, David and Nunes da Silva, Ana and Monestès, Jean-Louis and Álvarez Gálvez, Javier and Paez-Blarrina, Marisa and Montesinos, Francisco and Valdivia-Salas, Sonsoles and Ori, Dorottya and Kleszcz, Bartosz and Lappalainen, Raimo and Ivanović, Iva and Gosar, David and Dionne, Frederick and Merwin, Rhonda M. and Karekla, Maria and Kassianos, Angelos P. and Gloster, Andrew T.},
}