Prosocial responses to COVID-19: Examining the role of gratitude, fairness and legacy motives.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has produced an unprecedented collective action problem. Individuals must make a variety of decisions that influence both their own well-being and the health of those around them. Achieving the collective best-interest depends on most individuals responding in socially optimal ways, which includes remaining familiar with the current status of the pandemic, adhering to health guidelines relevant to the pandemic, and having a constructive emotional response to the pandemic. We sought to examine how individual differences in core moral motivators of collective action (i.e., fairness and gratitude) relate to individuals' COVID-19 responses. In a two-wave study (T1: N = 254; T2: N = 135) conducted in May and June 2020, we find that individual differences in f

SUBMITTER: Syropoulos S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9045807 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature