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Prosociality and hoarding amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A tale of four countries.
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- The portrayal of panic-buying and stockpiling in English newspapers during Covid, a mixed-method content analysis.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Does threat trigger prosociality? The relation between basic individual values, threat appraisals, and prosocial helping intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
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- How German and Italian Laypeople Reason about Distributive Shortages during COVID-19.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Not "My" crisis: Social identity and followers' crisis responses to COVID-19.Analyses of social issues and public policy : ASAP · 2022Article
- Helping Others Helps Me: Prosocial Behavior and Satisfaction With Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Association between fear of COVID-19 and hoarding behavior during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of mental health status.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- A Qualitative Study on the Care Experience of Emergency Department Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Mental health issues and health disparities amid COVID-19 outbreak in China: Comparison of residents inside and outside the epicenter.Psychiatry research · 2021Article
- The Influence of College Students' Empathy on Prosocial Behavior in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Social Responsibility.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Prosociality and hoarding amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A tale of four countries.Journal of community & applied social psychologyArticle
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented public health crisis that poses a challenge to humanity. Drawing on the stress and coping literature, we argue that people around the world alleviate their anxiety and stress induced by the pandemic through both prosocial and 'self-interested' hoarding behaviours. This cross-cultural survey study examined the pushing (threat perception) and pulling (moral identity) factors that predicted prosocial acts and hoarding, and subsequently psychological well-being. Data were collected from 9 April to 14 May 2020 from 251 participants in the United Kingdom (UK), 268 in the United States (US), 197 in Germany (DE), and 200 in Hong Kong (HK). Whereas threat perception was associated positively with both prosocial acts and hoarding, benevolent moral identity was associated positively with the former but not the latter behaviour. We also observed cross-cultural differences, such that both effects were stronger in more individualistic (UK, US) countries than less individualistic (HK, DE) ones. The findings shed light on the prosocial vs. self-interested behavioural responses of people in different cultures towards the same pandemic crisis.
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