Prosociality
The contribution of traits, values, and self-efficacy beliefs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6207066 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gian Vittorio Caprara (0000-0001-7998-7087, Sapienza University of Rome), G Alessandri (0000-0003-4731-5248, Sapienza University of Rome), Nancy Eisenberg (0000-0002-4780-4538, Arizona State University) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1289-1303 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0025626 |
| PMID | 21942280 |
| OpenAlex | W1993821554 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 113 |
| References cited | 78 |
The present study examined how agreeableness, self-transcendence values, and empathic self-efficacy beliefs predict individuals' tendencies to engage in prosocial behavior (i.e., prosociality) across time. Participants were 340 young adults, 190 women and 150 men, age approximately 21 years at Time 1 and 25 years at Time 2. Measures of agreeableness, self-transcendence, empathic self-efficacy beliefs, and prosociality were collected at 2 time points. The findings corroborated the posited paths of relations, with agreeableness directly predicting self-transcendence and indirectly predicting empathic self-efficacy beliefs and prosociality. Self-transcendence mediated the relation between agreeableness and empathic self-efficacy beliefs. Empathic self-efficacy beliefs mediated the relation of agreeableness and self-transcendence to prosociality. Finally, earlier prosociality predicted agreeableness and empathic self-efficacy beliefs assessed at Time 2. The posited conceptual model accounted for a significant portion of variance in prosociality and provides guidance to interventions aimed at promoting prosociality
Agreeableness · Big Five personality traits · Big Five personality traits and culture · Developmental psychology · Empathy · Extraversion and introversion · Personality · Prosocial behavior · Self-efficacy · Self-transcendence · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Agreeableness
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| Unique citing works | 113 |
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| Citations per year | 8,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 105 |