Does threat trigger prosociality? The relation between basic individual values, threat appraisals, and prosocial helping intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Prosociality is often considered as quintessential in coping with the threats of health emergencies. As previous research has suggested, prosocial behaviors are shaped by both dispositional factors and situational cues about the helping situation. In the present research, we investigated whether "bonding" types of prosociality, helping directed towards close others within one's social network, and "bridging" types of prosociality, helping directed towards vulnerable people across group boundaries, are predicted by basic individual values and threat appraisals concerning COVID-19. During the pandemic, we conducted a cross-sectional study in the US and India (N_total = 954), using the Schwartz value inventory and a multifaceted measure of threat assessment to predict

SUBMITTER: Politi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10262135 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature