Stressed and Helping: The Relations Among Acculturative Stress, Gender, and Prosocial Tendencies in Mexican Americans

McGinley, Meredith; Carlo, Gustavo; Crockett, Lisa J.; Raffaelli, Marcela; Stone, Rosalie A. Torres; Iturbide, Maria I.

doi:10.1080/00224540903365323

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“…Social closeness also modulate prosocial behaviors in males such that stressed males only showed increased generosity towards close but not distant others (Margittai et al., 2015b). Survey results have also shown that higher levels of acculturative stress are linked to greater anonymous prosocial tendencies and with fewer costly (altruistic) prosocial tendencies (McGinley et al., 2010). In the domain of moral decisions, recent studies using complex moral dilemmas have shown that persons under stress show significantly fewer utilitarian responses compared to control subjects (Youssef et al., 2012, Starcke et al., 2012).…”

Section: Stressors Potentiate Decision Biasesmentioning

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Stress potentiates decision biases: A stress induced deliberation-to-intuition (SIDI) model

2016

Neurobiology of Stress

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Humans often make decisions in stressful situations, for example when the stakes are high and the potential consequences severe, or when the clock is ticking and the task demand is overwhelming. In response, a whole train of biological responses to stress has evolved to allow organisms to make a fight-or-flight response. When under stress, fast and effortless heuristics may dominate over slow and demanding deliberation in making decisions under uncertainty. Here, I review evidence from behavioral studies and neuroimaging research on decision making under stress and propose that stress elicits a switch from an analytic reasoning system to intuitive processes, and predict that this switch is associated with diminished activity in the prefrontal executive control regions and exaggerated activity in subcortical reactive emotion brain areas. Previous studies have shown that when stressed, individuals tend to make more habitual responses than goal-directed choices, be less likely to adjust their initial judgment, and rely more on gut feelings in social situations. It is possible that stress influences the arbitration between the emotion responses in subcortical regions and deliberative processes in the prefrontal cortex, so that final decisions are based on unexamined innate responses. Future research may further test this ‘stress induced deliberation-to-intuition’ (SIDI) model and examine its underlying neural mechanisms.

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Stress potentiates decision biases: A stress induced deliberation-to-intuition (SIDI) model

2016

Neurobiology of Stress

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“…In addition, prior research suggests that Mexican American males and females differ in both their experiences with perceived discrimination (Pérez et al 2008; Umaña-Taylor and Updegraff 2007) and the expression of various prosocial tendencies (Fabes et al 1999; McGinley et al 2010). Furthermore, previous studies have found that the strength of Mexican American values varies by youths’ nativity (e.g., Gonzales et al 2008).…”

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Associations Between Adolescents’ Perceived Discrimination and Prosocial Tendencies: The Mediating Role of Mexican American Values

Brittian

O’Donnell

Knight

et al. 2012

J Youth Adolescence

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Experiences with perceived discrimination (e.g., perceptions of being treated unfairly due to race or ethnicity) are expected to impact negatively youths’ prosocial development. However, resilience often occurs in light of such experiences through cultural factors. The current longitudinal study examined the influence of perceived discrimination on the emergence of Mexican American adolescents’ later prosocial tendencies, and examined the mediating role of Mexican American values (e.g., familism, respect, and religiosity). Participants included 749 adolescents (49 % female) interviewed at 5th, 7th, and 10th grade. Results of the current study suggested that, although perceived discrimination was associated negatively with some types of prosocial tendencies (e.g., compliant, emotional, and dire) and related positively to public prosocial helping, the associations were mediated by youths’ Mexican American values. Directions for future research are presented and practical implications for promoting adolescents’ resilience are discussed.

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“…Research has demonstrated that individuals who had experienced traumatic events were more likely to help others in need than individuals who had not experienced traumatic stressors (Vollhardt & Staub, ). Similarly, research with U.S. Mexican college students suggests that acculturative stress (stress associated with adapting to a new culture) is positively associated with prosocial behaviors (McGinley et al, ). Based on these concepts and empirical findings, economic stress might be positively associated with both perspective taking and empathic concern, and ultimately prosocial behaviors.…”

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Considering economic stress and empathic traits in predicting prosocial behaviors among U.S. Latino adolescents

Davis

Carlo

Streit³

et al. 2017

Social Development

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The goal of the current study was to examine two competing models focusing on the roles of empathy-related traits in the relation between economic stress and prosocial behaviors. First, we examined the mediating roles of perspective taking and empathic concern in the association between economic stress and adolescents' prosocial behaviors. Second, we examined the moderating role of perspective taking in the association between economic stress and empathic concern, as well as the links between empathic concern and prosocial behaviors. Participants consisted of 307 (46.2% girls; M age 5 15.05) U.S. Latino adolescents (77.5% U.S. Mexicans) and their primary caregivers (87.9% mothers). Primary caregivers reported on family-level economic stress, and adolescents reported on their own perspective taking, empathic concern, and their tendency to engage in six forms of prosocial behaviors. Results demonstrated support for the moderating role of perspective taking on the link between economic stress and empathic concern, which in turn, was associated with multiple forms of helping behaviors. Economic stress was also directly associated with selfless and selfish helping behaviors. The discussion focuses on the multiple roles of empathic traits in understanding the links between economic stress and prosocial outcomes in U.S. Latino youth. K E Y W O R D Seconomic stress, empathic concern, Latino youth, perspective taking, prosocial behaviors

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Stressed and Helping: The Relations Among Acculturative Stress, Gender, and Prosocial Tendencies in Mexican Americans

Cited by 55 publications

References 56 publications

Stress potentiates decision biases: A stress induced deliberation-to-intuition (SIDI) model

Stress potentiates decision biases: A stress induced deliberation-to-intuition (SIDI) model

Associations Between Adolescents’ Perceived Discrimination and Prosocial Tendencies: The Mediating Role of Mexican American Values

Considering economic stress and empathic traits in predicting prosocial behaviors among U.S. Latino adolescents

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