Personality and context-related factors of helping and helping-related affect during early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 pandemic led to introduction of lockdown measures in many countries, while in Serbia the Government also introduced the curfew by which vulnerable groups of citizens were prohibited from leaving their homes at any time. In such a situation many citizens organized to voluntarily offer their help to those in isolation, which offered a unique opportunity to examine prosocial behavior in the natural setting of global crisis. This study examined the differences between non-helpers and helpers, as well as groups of helpers who provided their help to close or unknown others, in personality (prosocial tendencies, selfishness and communal narcissism) and context-related factors (situation specific empathy and fear) of prosocial behaviors. Additionally, the study also analyzed the helping-r

SUBMITTER: Bodroza B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9350159 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature