ArticlePloS one2022
Association of compassion and empathy with prosocial health behaviors and attitudes in a pandemic.
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- From misconceptions to empowerment: assessing health and genetic literacy on thalassemia among Tunisian secondary school students.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Face mask mandates alter major determinants of adherence to protective health behaviours in Australia.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Emotional indicators of university students: a quasi-experimental pilot study with Hatha-Yoga.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2025Article
- Personality factors and pandemic-related behaviors.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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- The role of mindfulness and compassion in early adults' subsequent mental health, coping and compliance with health guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective longitudinal study.Social and personality psychology compass · 2023Article
- To respond or not to respond: exploring empathy-related psychological and structural brain differences between placebo analgesia responders and non-responders.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Compassion as a tool for allyship and anti-racism.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Social support coping styles and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: The moderating role of sex.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Article
- Eliciting empathetic drives to prosocial behavior during stressful events.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
This investigation examined how dispositional compassion and empathy were associated with prosocial behaviors and attitudes in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Every two weeks from March 22 to June 15, 2020, we fielded a survey to a new cohort of adults in the U.S. Compassion related to whether one stayed home to protect others, more hours spent staying home and distancing from others, and more frequent mask wearing in public, in the past two weeks. Compassion also related to greater perceived ability to help others who were negatively affected. Empathy related to more endorsement of understanding others' fear of COVID-19, and less endorsement of the view that others were overreacting to COVID-19. There was an interaction between empathy and political ideology, suggesting that empathy may matter for understanding others' fear among those with more conservative-leaning beliefs. Empathy also related to greater understanding that sheltering-in-place helps prevent the spread of COVID-19. Findings suggest that messaging and interventions to increase compassion and empathy may promote public health behaviors during a pandemic regardless of political orientation. Targeting empathy may be one way to reach individuals with more conservative political beliefs, and it is important to use an evidence-based approach accounting for political party differences in motivated reasoning.
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