Byerly, T.R. orcid.org/0000-0002-0702-1790, Hill, P.C. and Edwards, K.J. (2022) Others-centeredness: a uniquely positive tendency to put others first. Personality and Individual Differences, 186 (Part A). 111364. ISSN 0191-8869
Abstract
Is putting the interests of others ahead of one's own interests a virtuous tendency? Previous research has produced ambivalent results about this. Some existing constructs that involve prioritizing others' interests over one's own, such as unmitigated communion, are treated primarily as negative features of personality, while others, such as high other-focus, are treated primarily as positive features. This study involved developing a new scale to measure others-centeredness, a tendency derived from philosophical research which involves prioritizing others' interests over one's own because one judges each person's interests to be equally valuable while also valuing interpersonal unions. This scale is used in both correlational and experimental studies to demonstrate that others-centeredness is uniquely positively related to indicators of well-being when controlling for unmitigated communion and high other-focus, while the latter relate negatively to indicators of well-being, or lack positive associations with such, when controlling for others-centeredness. Accordingly, others-centeredness may be a uniquely positive, virtuous tendency to put others' interests first.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Personality and Individual Differences. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Others-centeredness; Humility; Unmitigated communion; High other-focus; Self-differentiation; Dictator game |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION 61015 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2021 17:26 |
Last Modified: | 13 Nov 2023 01:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111364 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:181541 |