Serrano Montilla, CeliaAlonso Ferres, MaríaNavarro Carrillo, GinésLozano, Luis ManuelValor Segura, Inmaculada2024-12-112024-12-112021Celia Serrano-Montilla, María Alonso-Ferres, Ginés Navarro-Carrillo, Luis M. Lozano, Inmaculada Valor-Segura, Assessment of the effects of health and financial threat on prosocial and antisocial responses during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of empathic concern, Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 178, 2021, 110855, ISSN 0191-8869, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.1108550191-8869https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110855https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/24814The registered version of this article, first published in “Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 178", is available online at the publisher's website: Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110855 La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en “Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 178", está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110855This research aims to elucidate the connection of perceived health and financial threat linked to the COVID-19 pandemic with the willingness to engage in prosocial and antisocial behaviors, while also testing the potential mediating role of empathic concern. During the lockdown period, a sample of Spanish community members (N = 702) filled in a multi-measure online survey. Our results revealed that (a) COVID-19 health (but not financial) threat predicted a greater tendency to express prosocial actions, (b) none of these forms of COVID-19 threat predicted antisocial inclinations, and (c) empathic concern mediated the effects of COVID-19 health threat on both prosocial and antisocial tendencies. Findings speak to the ongoing debate about whether individuals most psychologically impacted by the pandemic would tend to respond in a more prosocial or antisocial manner.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess61 PsicologíaartículoCOVID-19ThreatProsocial tendenciesAntisocial tendenciesEmpathic concern