Understanding prosocial and antisocial behaviours: The roles of self-focused and other-focused motivational orientations

IF 2.8 2区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Keven Joyal-Desmarais, Hyun Euh, Alexandra Scharmer, Mark Snyder
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We examine how individual differences in self-focused and other-focused orientations relate to prosocial (e.g., helping, volunteerism) and antisocial (e.g., theft, violence) behaviours/attitudes. Using four datasets (total N = 176,216; across 78 countries), we find that other-focused orientations (e.g., socially focused values, intimacy motivation, compassionate/communal traits) generally relate positively to prosocial outcomes and negatively to antisocial outcomes. These effects are highly consistent cross-nationally and across multiple ways of operationalizing constructs. In contrast, self-focused orientations (e.g., personally focused values, power motivation, assertive/agentic traits) tend to relate positively to both antisocial and prosocial outcomes. However, associations with prosocial outcomes vary substantially across nations and construct operationalizations. Overall, the effects of other-focused orientations are consistently larger than those of self-focused orientations. We discuss the implications of these findings for interventions that target self-focused and other-focused motivations to influence prosocial and antisocial outcomes.

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我们研究了以自我为中心和以他人为中心的取向的个体差异与亲社会(如助人、志愿服务)和反社会(如偷窃、暴力)行为/态度的关系。通过使用四个数据集(总人数=176,216;横跨78个国家),我们发现以他人为中心的取向(如以社会为中心的价值观、亲密关系动机、同情心/社区特质)通常与亲社会结果呈正相关,而与反社会结果呈负相关。这些影响在不同国家和不同的操作方法中都是高度一致的。与此相反,以自我为中心的取向(如以个人为中心的价值观、权力动机、自信/代理特质)往往与反社会和亲社会结果都有正相关。然而,与亲社会结果的关联在不同国家和不同的建构操作中存在很大差异。总体而言,他者取向的影响始终大于自我取向的影响。我们讨论了这些发现对针对自我和他者动机的干预措施的影响,以影响亲社会和反社会结果。
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7.70%
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期刊介绍: Topics covered include, among others, intergroup relations, group processes, social cognition, attitudes, social influence and persuasion, self and identity, verbal and nonverbal communication, language and thought, affect and emotion, embodied and situated cognition and individual differences of social-psychological relevance. Together with original research articles, the European Journal of Social Psychology"s innovative and inclusive style is reflected in the variety of articles published: Research Article: Original articles that provide a significant contribution to the understanding of social phenomena, up to a maximum of 12,000 words in length.
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