The contribution of agreeableness and self‐efficacy beliefs to prosociality

2009/09/22 by Gian Vittorio Caprara, Guido Alessandri, Laura Di Giunta +2 · 2 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression #Social and Intergroup Psychology

paper · doi:10.1002/per.739

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.

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