Prosocial Orientations: Distinguishing Compassionate Goals From Other Constructs.

ABSTRACT: The compassionate goals scale was developed to assess the intentions underlying prosocial behaviors. Over the past 10 years, it has been shown to predict prosociality. However, research has not yet examined how compassionate goals relate to other measures of prosocial orientations or demonstrated that compassionate goals predict unique variance beyond them. Three studies addressed this shortcoming in the existing literature. Across studies, participants completed measures of compassionate goals, compassionate love, communal orientation, communion, unmitigated communion, and empathic concern. The participants also reported giving to strangers (study 1) and giving to close others (study 2). Study 3 was dyadic in nature-the participants reported their reasons for giving to friends and gratitu

SUBMITTER: Canevello A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7527500 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature