%0 Journal Article
%A Serrano-Montilla, Celia
%A Alonso Ferrés, María
%A Navarro-Carrillo, Ginés
%A Lozano, Luis. M.
%A Valor-Segura, Inmaculada
%T Assessment of the effects of health and financial threat on prosocial and antisocial responses during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating role of empathic concern
%D 2021
%@ 0191-8869
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100701
%X This research aims to elucidate the connection of perceived health and financial threat linked to the COVID-19 pandemic with the willingness to engage in prosocial and antisocial behaviors, while also testing the potential mediating role of empathic concern. During the lockdown period, a sample of Spanish community members (N = 702) filled in a multi-measure online survey. Our results revealed that (a) COVID-19 health (but not financial) threat predicted a greater tendency to express prosocial actions, (b) none of these forms of COVID-19 threat predicted antisocial inclinations, and (c) empathic concern mediated the effects of COVID-19 health threat on both prosocial and antisocial tendencies. Findings speak to the ongoing debate about whether individuals most psychologically impacted by the pandemic would tend to respond in a more prosocial or antisocial manner.
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