Investigating adult age differences in real-life empathy, prosociality, and well-being using experience sampling.

ABSTRACT: While the importance of social affect and cognition is indisputable throughout the adult lifespan, findings of how empathy and prosociality develop and interact across adulthood are mixed and real-life data are scarce. Research using ecological momentary assessment recently demonstrated that adults commonly experience empathy in daily life. Furthermore, experiencing empathy was linked to higher prosocial behavior and subjective well-being. However, to date, it is not clear whether there are adult age differences in daily empathy and daily prosociality and whether age moderates the relationship between empathy and prosociality across adulthood. Here we analyzed experience-sampling data collected from participants across the adult lifespan to study age effects on empathy, prosocial behavior,

SUBMITTER: Pollerhoff L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8891267 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature