RT journal article
T1 To Help or Not to Help? Prosocial Behavior, Its Association With Well-Being, and Predictors of Prosocial Behavior During the Coronavirus Disease Pandemic
A1 Haller, Elisa
A1 Lubenko, Jelena
A1 Presti, Giovambattista
A1 Squatrito, Valeria
A1 Constantinou, Marios
A1 Nicolaou, Christiana
A1 Papacostas, Savvas
A1 Aydın, Gökçen
A1 Chong, Yuen Yu
A1 Chien, Wai Tong
A1 Cheng, Ho Yu
A1 Ruiz, Francisco J.
A1 Garcia-Martin, Maria B.
A1 Obando-Posada, Diana P.
A1 Segura-Vargas, Miguel A.
A1 Vasiliou, Vasilis S
A1 McHugh, Louise
A1 Höfer, Stefan
A1 Baban, Adriana
A1 Dias Neto, David
A1 Nunes da Silva, Ana
A1 Monestès, Jean-Louis
A1 Álvarez Gálvez, Javier
A1 Paez-Blarrina, Marisa
A1 Montesinos, Francisco
A1 Valdivia-Salas, Sonsoles
A1 Ori, Dorottya
A1 Kleszcz, Bartosz
A1 Lappalainen, Raimo
A1 Ivanović, Iva
A1 Gosar, David
A1 Dionne, Frederick
A1 Merwin, Rhonda M.
A1 Karekla, Maria
A1 Kassianos, Angelos P.
A1 Gloster, Andrew T.
A2 BiomedicinaBiotecnología y Salud Pública
K1 well-being
K1 COVID-19 pandemic
K1 predictors of prosocial behavior
K1 social support
AB 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.
PB FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
SN 1664-1078
YR 2022
FD 2022-02
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26563
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26563
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 15-nov-2026