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Empathy-mediated altruism in intergroup contexts: The roles of posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth
- Source :
- Emotion. 22:1699-1712
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- American Psychological Association (APA), 2022.
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Abstract
- Exposure to war-related violence is associated with greater prosocial behavior. Although researchers point to empathy and individual differences in posttraumatic growth to explain this relationship, there is no direct empirical evidence of the psychological process by which exposure to wartime violence leads to prosociality. In this investigation, we propose and test a comprehensive model of empathy-mediated altruism that addresses both how and when exposure to violence may be associated with prosociality. Results from a large-scale survey experiment conducted in a naturalistic field setting (1,660 refugees from the wars in Syria and Iraq residing in Turkey) indicate that participants reported greater empathy and altruism toward ingroup versus outgroup targets, and that posttraumatic stress predicted less and posttraumatic growth predicted more empathy and altruism. Further, empathy mediated ingroup biases in altruism (i.e., allocation of resources to the self and others); this indirect effect was stronger for those reporting greater posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic stress. These results support our proposed model of empathy-mediated altruism that incorporates individual differences in response to war violence and ingroup preferences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
- Subjects :
- group identity
Psykologi (exklusive tillämpad psykologi)
Posttraumatic growth
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Self
Empathy
posttraumatic growth
PsycINFO
posttraumatic stress
Ingroups and outgroups
Altruism
Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
altruism
Prosocial behavior
Outgroup
Humans
empathy
Psychology
Posttraumatic Growth, Psychological
Social psychology
General Psychology
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19311516 and 15283542
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Emotion
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9a1bf79ceb0271e6497a1ef981d2f639