Connecting perceived economic threat and prosocial tendencies: The explanatory role of empathic concern

Alonso-Ferres, María, Navarro-Carrillo, Ginés, Garrido-Macías, Marta, Moreno-Bella, Eva y Valor-Segura, Inmaculada . (2020) Connecting perceived economic threat and prosocial tendencies: The explanatory role of empathic concern. PLoS One, 15(5), e0232608

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Título Connecting perceived economic threat and prosocial tendencies: The explanatory role of empathic concern
Autor(es) Alonso-Ferres, María
Navarro-Carrillo, Ginés
Garrido-Macías, Marta
Moreno-Bella, Eva
Valor-Segura, Inmaculada
Materia(s) Psicología
Resumen Recent research suggests that perceived economic threat constitutes a valid predictor of people’s attitudes and behaviors. While accumulated empirical evidence has mostly underlined the deleterious psychological effects (e.g., reduced psychological well-being) of perceived economic threat in times of economic strain, we postulate that individuals experiencing higher economic threat linked to the Spanish economic crisis are more prone to engage in other-beneficial prosocial behavior. Across two independently collected community samples, we tested this theoretical formulation and examined the potential mediating roles of empathic concern (Studies 1 & 2) and identification (Study 2). Study 1 (N = 306) revealed that participants who descended in the social scale due to the negative national economic context were engaged in a larger number of helping behaviors over the last three months compared to participants who did not descend the social ladder—independently of several sociodemographic and ideological factors. Moreover, our data indicated these effects were driven by increased empathic concern. Study 2 (N = 588), in which two hypothetical helping-behavior scenarios were randomly administered (crisis-related vs. control), showed that participants under high perceived financial threat exhibited an undifferentiated pattern of prosociality. However, moderated-mediation analyses indicated that empathic concern explained the perceived financial threat-helping behavior link in the hypothetical crisis-related scenario but not in the hypothetical control scenario. Together, these findings extend prior literature on the psychosocial effects of perceived economic threat and the determinants of other-oriented behavior. Implications of these findings and suggestions for further research are discussed.
Editor(es) Public Library of Science
Fecha 2020
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Identificador bibliuned:DptoPSyO-FPSI-Articulos-Emoreno-005
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DOI - identifier https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232608
ISSN - identifier 1932-6203
Nombre de la revista PLOS ONE
Número de Volumen 15
Número de Issue 5
Publicado en la Revista PLoS One, 15(5), e0232608
Idioma eng
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Derechos de acceso y licencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Notas adicionales The registered version of this article, first published in PLOS ONE, is available online at the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232608
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