Joyal-Desmarais, K. orcid.org/0000-0003-0657-8367, Euh, H., Scharmer, A. et al. (1 more author) (2024) Understanding Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviours: The Roles of Self-Focused and Other-Focused Motivational Orientations. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54 (7). pp. 1610-1643. ISSN 0046-2772
Abstract
We examine how individual differences in self-focused and other-focused orientations relate to prosocial (e.g., helping, volunteerism) and antisocial (e.g., theft, violence) behaviours/attitudes. Using four datasets (total N = 176,216; across 78 countries), we find that other-focused orientations (e.g., socially focused values, intimacy motivation, compassionate/communal traits) generally relate positively to prosocial outcomes and negatively to antisocial outcomes. These effects are highly consistent cross-nationally and across multiple ways of operationalizing constructs. In contrast, self-focused orientations (e.g., personally focused values, power motivation, assertive/agentic traits) tend to relate positively to both antisocial and prosocial outcomes. However, associations with prosocial outcomes vary substantially across nations and construct operationalizations. Overall, the effects of other-focused orientations are consistently larger than those of self-focused orientations. We discuss the implications of these findings for interventions that target self-focused and other-focused motivations to influence prosocial and antisocial outcomes.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). European Journal of Social Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | antisocial behaviour and aggression, egoistic and altruistic motivations, interpersonal circumplex,other-focused orientations, prosocial behaviour, self-focused orientations |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2024 11:09 |
Last Modified: | 17 Feb 2025 16:06 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/ejsp.3110 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:217300 |