The present study examined how agreeableness and self-efficacy beliefs about responding empathically to others' needs predict individuals' prosociality, across time. participants were 377 adolescents (66% males) aged 16 at Time 1 and 18 at Time 2 who took part at this study. Measures of agreeableness, empathic self-efficacy and prosociality were collected at two time points. The findings corroborated the posited paths of relations to assigning agreeableness a major role in predicting the level of individuals' prosociality. Empathic self-efficacy beliefs partially mediated the relation of agreeableness to prosociality. The posited conceptual model accounted for a significant portion of variance in prosociality and provides guidance with respect to interventions aimed at promoting prosociality Copyright (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The contribution of agreeableness and self-efficacy beliefs to prosociality / Caprara, Gian Vittorio; Alessandri, Guido; DI GIUNTA, Laura; Laura, Panerai; Nancy, Eisenberg. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY. - ISSN 0890-2070. - 24:1(2010), pp. 36-55. [10.1002/per.739]
The contribution of agreeableness and self-efficacy beliefs to prosociality
CAPRARA, Gian Vittorio;ALESSANDRI, GUIDO;DI GIUNTA, Laura;
2010
Abstract
The present study examined how agreeableness and self-efficacy beliefs about responding empathically to others' needs predict individuals' prosociality, across time. participants were 377 adolescents (66% males) aged 16 at Time 1 and 18 at Time 2 who took part at this study. Measures of agreeableness, empathic self-efficacy and prosociality were collected at two time points. The findings corroborated the posited paths of relations to assigning agreeableness a major role in predicting the level of individuals' prosociality. Empathic self-efficacy beliefs partially mediated the relation of agreeableness to prosociality. The posited conceptual model accounted for a significant portion of variance in prosociality and provides guidance with respect to interventions aimed at promoting prosociality Copyright (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
