Pro-social personality traits, helping behavior, and ego-depletion: Is helping really easier for the dispositionally pro-social?

Ruci, Lorena; Allen, Zack van; Zelenski, John M.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.08.013

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“…Prosocial behavior, which is defined as behavior motivated by the intention to help people, plays a vital role in our society (Penner, Dovidio, Piliavin & Schroeder, 2005). There has been much interest in exploring the determinants of prosocial behavior (Grant & Gino, 2010;Ruci, van Allen & Zelenski, 2018). For instance, many studies have focused on situational factors that affect an individual's prosocial behavior (Fiske, 2004).…”

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“…An important issue in this area is to explore the individual differences in prosocial behavior (Carlo, Roesch & Melby, 1998;Poulin, Holman & Buffone, 2012). Thus, one particular concern in this regard would be to search for the personality trait that links to prosocial behavior, namely, prosocial personality (Habashi, Graziano & Hoover, 2016;Ruci et al, 2018). The honesty-humility trait has recently been proposed, which plays an important role in highlighting the basic prosocial trait (Hilbig, Gl€ ockner & Zettler, 2014).…”

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Honesty‐humility and prosocial behavior: The mediating roles of perspective taking and guilt‐proneness

Fang

Dong

Lan-ran

2019

Scandinavian J Psychology

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The prosocial personality trait of honesty‐humility has received extensive attention in the last decade. However, research on the mechanism underlying the relationship between honesty‐humility and prosocial behavior is rather scarce. This study aims to explore the internal mechanism underlying this relationship to draw a complete picture of the honesty‐humility trait. A sample of 458 Chinese young adults was obtained to complete self‐report measures of honesty‐humility, perspective taking, guilt‐proneness, and prosocial behavior. The mediation model revealed that: (1) honesty‐humility positively related to prosocial behavior; (2) perspective taking and guilt‐proneness mediated the relationship between honesty‐humility and prosocial behavior, separately; and (3) the effect of honesty‐humility on prosocial behavior was mediated via perspective taking and then guilt‐proneness. In conclusion, we provide an initial support for the mediating roles of perspective taking and guilt‐proneness in the relationship between honesty‐humility and prosocial behavior. Both theoretical and practical implications for understanding the psychological mechanisms of prosocial behavior are discussed.

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Honesty‐humility and prosocial behavior: The mediating roles of perspective taking and guilt‐proneness

Fang

Dong

Lan-ran

2019

Scandinavian J Psychology

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“…This approach may fall short of explaining what helping means from the recipient’s viewpoint. In particular, because helping behavior aims at resolving a coworker’s task-related issues (George and Jones, 1997; Moorman and Blakely, 1995; Ruci et al , 2018), it seems that the recipient’s view of what helping really is can influence whether the helper’s help is perceived as helping. Thus, in the next section, we present a theoretical model of helping through the eyes of the recipient.…”

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When is helping considered helping? The recipient’s view of helping during the stages of receiving help

Chou

Ramser

Chang

2019

IJOTB

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical model that describes when helping is considered helping from the recipient’s point of view. Design/methodology/approach The theoretical model was conceptually developed by drawing upon attribution theory, self-consistency theory and social cognitive theory, as well as relevant literature. Findings The authors propose that receiving help encompasses three sequential stages: the pre-help-receiving stage, the help-receiving stage and the post-help-receiving stage. Additionally, the authors theorize that the more other-oriented helping motives are attributed by the recipient, the more likely the recipient views the helper’s help as helping, that the more self-esteem preserving behaviors along with helping actions the recipient receives from the helper, the more likely the recipient views the helper’s help as helping and that the more gaps between actual and desired level of task performance are closed by the helper’s help, the more likely the recipient views the helper’s help as helping. Originality/value From a theoretical standpoint, this paper offers a process approach that may guide future research on help receiving in organizations.

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“…The impeded progress may in turn prompt employees to direct more attention resources to their work and may lead to consistent depletion of self-control resources and energy ( Lin et al, 2017 ). Employees in ego depleted states are more likely to engage in interpersonal deviance for the short-lived benefits in order to recover from the ego depletion ( Ruci et al, 2018 ). Moreover, political acts were instrumental aiming to exert influences on coworkers which caused changes in interpersonal relationships ( Cheng et al, 2022 ).…”

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An Ego Depletion Perspective Linking Political Behavior to Interpersonal Deviance

Xin

Zheng

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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A political act is a typical self-serving behavior that works to promote or protect self-interest. However, limited research explores its relationship with daily downstream behavior. Based on the ego depletion theory, the present study attempts to clarify when and how daily political acts will be transformed into interpersonal deviance. We collected 760 cases nested in 152 full time workers in mainland China through the experience sampling method. Via a multilevel structural equation model and hierarchical linear model, we tested the mediated moderation model. The results showed that political acts correlated with interpersonal deviance on a daily basis. Moral self-efficacy buffers the relationship between political acts and interpersonal deviance, whereas chronic job strain amplifies the relationship. Furthermore, moral self-efficacy can mediate the moderating role of chronic job strain.

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Pro-social personality traits, helping behavior, and ego-depletion: Is helping really easier for the dispositionally pro-social?

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Honesty‐humility and prosocial behavior: The mediating roles of perspective taking and guilt‐proneness

Honesty‐humility and prosocial behavior: The mediating roles of perspective taking and guilt‐proneness

When is helping considered helping? The recipient’s view of helping during the stages of receiving help

An Ego Depletion Perspective Linking Political Behavior to Interpersonal Deviance

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