Prosocial responses to COVID-19: Examining the role of gratitude, fairness and legacy motives

Syropoulos, Stylianos; Markowitz, Ezra M.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.110488

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“…Fear, anger, and hopelessness were the most frequent traumatic emotional responses during the first stage of outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic ( Trnka and Lorencova, 2020 ). To deal with these traumatic emotions, gratitude, among others, was associated with more adaptive and prosocial responses to the pandemic, realizing that one is not alone on this world but part of a larger whole ( Syropoulos and Markowitz, 2020 ). Thus, gratitude could potentially help regulate the negative impact that a lockdown might have on a person’s mental well-being and their social relationships.…”

Section: Mature Gratitude and Covid-19mentioning

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A Perspective on Mature Gratitude as a Way of Coping With COVID-19

Jans-Beken¹

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Aim and MethodsThis perspective presents evidence of mature gratitude as a way of coping with the threats and boundaries of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This narrative, non-systematic review will be based on studies from the COVID-19 period in association with more general literature on the characteristics of mature gratitude related to good mental health.ResultsThe results from the literature suggest that a confrontation with our existential vulnerability during a pandemic is not only a crisis but also an opportunity to view our lives in a different way. Mature gratitude, as proposed in this perspective, can help us in coping with the threats and boundaries that are part of our lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This time of crisis gives us the opportunity to self-reflect on our current life and plans for the future and to reframe them through a positive lens which can encourage individuals to actively strengthen their psychological resilience and coping skills.ConclusionCultivating an attitude of mature gratitude through actions of kindness, expressing being thankful for life and God, and enjoying all the small things in life helps in coping with the current threats of COVID-19 and building lifelong resilience for the future. Knowledge about these associations can help psychologists, counselors, and coaches to support people who experience psychological issues due to the current pandemic and all crises to come.

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Section: Mature Gratitude and Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Perspective on Mature Gratitude as a Way of Coping With COVID-19

Jans-Beken¹

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…Although prior work has focused almost exclusively on the risks of social media use, in this study we sought to identify associations between social media use and gratitude—a positive emotional experience—particularly in a context when in‐person social interaction is not possible. During the pandemic, gratitude may motivate social interaction (Jiang, 2020 ; Syropoulos & Markowitz, 2021 ), even when only online social contact is permitted. Additionally, social interaction—particularly when social deprivation is high—may spur feelings of gratitude.…”

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#Grateful: Longitudinal Associations Between Adolescents’ Social Media Use and Gratitude During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Maheux

Nesi

Galla

et al. 2021

J of Research on Adolesc

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During the COVID‐19 pandemic, some ways of using social media—such as directly communicating with friends—may have helped adolescents thrive. We examined longitudinal associations between high school adolescents’ social media use and gratitude across a 15‐month period before and during the pandemic ( n = 704, M age = 15.10; 52% girls). The trajectories of gratitude and the importance of social media for meaningful conversations with friends—but not frequency of social media use—were positively associated over time. At the within‐person level, gratitude predicted increased importance of social media for meaningful conversations, but not vice‐versa. Findings suggest that gratitude may be associated with and may motivate using social media to foster social connection, but may not increase overall social media use.

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“…Firstly, the widespread collective action and cooperation that occurred during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic (Syropoulos and Markowitz, 2021 ) may make society as a whole more collectivistic. It has been suggested that collectivism, as an important cultural value, can affect a person's sensitivity to prosocial norms (Jung et al, 2020 ).…”

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“…Information released by official sources also exhibits a stronger nudging effect. Therefore, the COVID-19 pandemic has not only increased people's personal health- and mortality-related risk perceptions, but it may have also activated a slew of psychological mechanisms (Syropoulos and Markowitz, 2021 ) that changed people's perception of the same information. The findings of this study can assist researchers obtain a deeper understanding of social information and support policymakers or practitioners in choosing more effective marketing strategies for voluntary blood donation campaigns.…”

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The COVID-19 Pandemic Changes the Nudging Effect of Social Information on Individuals' Blood Donation Intention

Wang

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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The positive effect of social information on nudging prosocial behavior is context dependent. Understanding how sensitive intervention outcomes are to changes in the choice context is essential for policy design, especially in times of great uncertainty, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. The present paper explores the effectiveness of social information in changing voluntary blood donation intention in two contexts: before and after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in China. In addition to the dimension of context, information content and its source are also important. Using a survey administered to 1,116 participants, we conducted an intertemporal randomized-controlled experiment to systematically analyze how information can effectively nudge the intention to donate blood. Compared with content featuring blood donors' commendation information, blood users' demand information is found to have a stronger nudging effect. An official information source has a greater influence on participants' donation intention than an unofficial source. Furthermore, our analysis of two waves of experimental data (i.e., before and after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic) shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has further enhanced the nudging effect of blood users' demand information and official information sources. These findings provide a theoretical basis and policy recommendations for relevant institutions to develop effective blood donation campaign strategies.

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Prosocial responses to COVID-19: Examining the role of gratitude, fairness and legacy motives

Cited by 44 publications

References 37 publications

A Perspective on Mature Gratitude as a Way of Coping With COVID-19

A Perspective on Mature Gratitude as a Way of Coping With COVID-19

#Grateful: Longitudinal Associations Between Adolescents’ Social Media Use and Gratitude During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 Pandemic Changes the Nudging Effect of Social Information on Individuals' Blood Donation Intention

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