ArticleFrontiers in psychology2024
The influence of social exclusion on prosocial behavior of college students: the role of relational need threat and regulatory focus.
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- Peer Attachment and Prosocial Behavior: The Mediating Role of Positive Legal Emotion and the Moderating Effect of Social Exclusion.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Integrating Inflammation and Lipid Metabolism Biomarkers for Early Risk Stratification in Acute Cerebral Infarction: A Nomogram-Based Approach.Mediators of inflammation · 2026Article
- The effect of regulating focus tendencies on college students' sports anomie behavior: the mediating role of autonomous and controlled motivation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
The present study investigated the impact of social exclusion on prosocial behavior, examining the roles of relational need threat and regulatory focus. Utilizing a questionnaire study with 483 participants (Study 1) and an experimental study with 100 participants (Study 2), we found that (1) social exclusion negatively predicted prosocial behavior; (2) relational need threat fully mediated the relationship between social exclusion and prosocial behavior; and (3) regulatory focus, categorized as either promotion or prevention, moderated this relationship in opposite directions. In conclusion, our findings reveal that social exclusion does indeed trigger prosocial behavior. Meanwhile, relational need threat and regulatory focus have a co-action impact on this process. These findings have been carefully discussed within the frameworks of the temporal need-threat model and the cognitive-affective personality system theory.
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