Social Engagement Early in the U.S. COVID-19 Crisis: Exploring Social Support and Prosocial Behavior Between Those With and Without Depression or Anxiety in an Online Sample

McGuire, Adam P.; Hayden, Candice; Frankfurt, Sheila; Kurz, A. Solomon; Anderson, Austen R.; Howard, Binh An Nguyen; Szabo, Yvette Z.

doi:10.1521/jscp.2020.39.10.923

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“…Early in the COVID-19 crisis, there were concerns about social engagement (McGuire et al, 2020). A U.S.-based online survey was used to examine patterns of social support and PsB for people with and without depression or anxiety.…”

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Helping Others Helps Me: Prosocial Behavior and Satisfaction With Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2022

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Prosocial behavior (PsB) and its effects have been analyzed in times of crisis and natural disasters, although never before in the face of such exceptional circumstances as those created by the COVID-19 pandemic. This research analyzes the role of PsB on satisfaction with life (SWL) in Colombia, considering the negative emotional impact of events that began in February 2020. We conduct an exploratory analysis using a sample of Colombia’s general population (N = 2,574; 53.2% women) with an average age of 44.66 years (SD = 15.36). Using the Classification Tree technique, we find that engaging in one or more PsBs (e.g., donating money or sharing food) enhances SWL and decreases the impact of negative emotions such as pessimism, indecisiveness, and irritability that have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. These findings are significant because they confirm the importance of life satisfaction as a personal resource for coping with complex situations and provide evidence of the benefits of PsB on one’s wellbeing.

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Helping Others Helps Me: Prosocial Behavior and Satisfaction With Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2022

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“…Furthermore, the analysis revealed that adolescent girls with lower levels RE importance showed links between greater prosocial SM use (e.g., for school, activism, and social connectedness) and heightened depressive symptoms. While this finding reflected greater psychological strain on prosocial behaviors online, prior work has shown similar results such that elevated prosocial behaviors are associated to heighten depressive symptoms among adolescent girls (Alarcón & Forbes, 2017) and adults more generally in the context of COVID-19 (McGuire et al, 2020). Gender differences in mental health and prosocial behaviors have also demonstrated that due to girls’ typical relational style (i.e., focus on maintaining harmonious relationships, caring about social evaluations), and there is often an emotional cost when engaging in interpersonal competence behaviors (Rudolph & Conley, 2005).…”

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Conceptualizing the role of racial–ethnic identity in U.S. adolescent social technology use and well-being.

Hernandez¹,

Charmaraman²,

Schaefer³

2023

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Adolescent development and well-being now involve how the use of social technologies (e.g., social media and other online spaces) impact daily life. Especially during crises such as COVID-19 and persistent injustices, adolescents rely on online spaces for social connectedness and informational knowledge. Psychosocial impacts, both positive and negative, have been found among racial–ethnic (RE) minority adolescents. However, the role of RE identity on social media use and well-being has been understudied. The current study addresses differential associations on social media experiences and mental health (i.e., depressive and online anxiety symptoms) among a diverse group of adolescents (n = 668; aged 10–17; 45.7% non-White). Furthermore, the roles of self-identified RE groups, identity importance, exposure to hate messaging, and gender are investigated. Our study found significant moderating effects of RE importance, gender, and online hate messaging. Additionally, the moderating role of race–ethnicity reveals a stronger association between greater social media frequency and heightened depressive symptoms among Asian adolescents. Black adolescents showed a significant association between greater social media frequency and decreased online social anxiety. Significant effects of online hate messaging exposure also reveal associations between online behaviors and depression and online social anxiety across adolescents. As social media adoption coincides with identity exploration, this study highlights how RE identity and its formation in the digital age is important to understand its association with online interactions that may help or hinder adolescent well-being. Future work should continue examining trajectories of identity formation in relation to social media content and differential mental health impacts.

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“…Consistent with previous studies, and the extended exploration of critical situations, our results suggest that college students with high social support showed a higher tendency to PSB during the pandemic. To summarize, in the critical situations of the pandemic, social support played a positive role in promoting PSB in the buffering of stress ( Mcguire et al, 2020 ; Chen et al, 2021 ), role model demonstration ( Feng, 2016 ), positive publicity ( Hu, 2020 ) and so on.…”

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Social support and prosocial behavior in Chinese college students during the COVID-19 outbreak: a moderated mediation model of positive affect and parental care

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PurposeProsocial behavior (PSB) plays a critical role in everyday society, especially during the pandemic of COVID-19. Understanding the underlying mechanism will provide insight and advance its implementation. According to the theory of PSB, social interaction, family and individual characters all contribute to its development. The current study aimed to investigate the influencing factor of PSB among Chinese college students during COVID-19 outbreak. This is an attempt to understand the mechanism of PSB and to provide a reference for the formulation of policies aimed at promoting healthy collaborative relationships for college students.MethodThe online questionnaire was administered to 664 college students from 29 provinces of China via Credamo platform. There were 332 medical students and 332 non-medical students aged between 18 and 25 included for final study. The mediating role of positive emotion/affect (PA) and the moderating role of parental care in the association between social support and PSB during the pandemic of COVID-19 was explored by using Social Support Rate Scale (SSRS), Prosocial Tendencies Measurement Scale (PTM), The Positive and Negative Affect (PANAS), as well as Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI). The process macro model of SPSS was adopted for mediating and moderating analysis.ResultsThe results showed that social support positively predicted PSB among Chinese college students, even after adding PA as a mediation variable. PA during COVID-19 mediated the association between social support and PSB. PSB also revealed as a predictor of PA by regression analysis. Moreover, the moderating effect of parental care in the relationship between PA and PSB was detected.ConclusionPA under stress acts as a mediator between social support and PSB. This mediating effect was moderated by PC in childhood. In addition, PSB was observed to predict PA reversely. The promoting factors and path between the variables of PSB are complex and need to be explored extensively. The underlying factors and process should be further investigated for the development of intervention plans.

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Social Engagement Early in the U.S. COVID-19 Crisis: Exploring Social Support and Prosocial Behavior Between Those With and Without Depression or Anxiety in an Online Sample

Cited by 8 publications

References 45 publications

Helping Others Helps Me: Prosocial Behavior and Satisfaction With Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Helping Others Helps Me: Prosocial Behavior and Satisfaction With Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Conceptualizing the role of racial–ethnic identity in U.S. adolescent social technology use and well-being.

Social support and prosocial behavior in Chinese college students during the COVID-19 outbreak: a moderated mediation model of positive affect and parental care

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