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Serrano-Montilla, Celia Alonso Ferrés, María Navarro-Carrillo, Ginés Lozano, Luis. M. Valor-Segura, Inmaculada 2024-02-09T08:50:12Z 2024-02-09T08:50:12Z 2021-03-23 Celia Serrano-Montilla, María Alonso-Ferres, Ginés Navarro-Carrillo, Luis M. Lozano, Inmaculada Valor-Segura, 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, Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 178, 2021, 110855, ISSN 0191-8869, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110855. 0191-8869 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110855 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100701 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886921002300 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. eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 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 journal article