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18-01-2025 | ORIGINAL PAPER

Trait Mindfulness and Prosocial Behavior: The Moderating Role of Self-Construals and Individualism

Auteurs: Michael J. Poulin, Lauren M. Ministero, C. Dale Shaffer-Morrison, Kathleen Finnerty, Leslie Mei, Imokhuede Nathaniel Zedomi, Shira Gabriel

Gepubliceerd in: Mindfulness

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Abstract

Objectives

Trait mindfulness is associated with many measures of individual well-being, but its relationship to prosocial behavior is less clear. Prior research found that a brief intervention boosting state mindfulness led to increased prosocial behaviors among individuals with interdependent self-construals, but decreased prosocial behaviors among individuals with independent self-construals. The present research sought to examine trait mindfulness and prosocial behavior and to examine the moderating roles of both horizontal and vertical interdependence.

Methods

Participants (n = 149) came to a lab and read about a charitable cause. They then had the opportunity to stuff envelopes on behalf of a fundraising appeal for that cause. Previously, outside of the lab, participants had completed measures of trait mindfulness, self-construal, and individualism-collectivism.

Results

Trait mindfulness predicted increased helping behavior in the form of stuffing envelopes among people high in collective interdependent self-construal and among those low in horizontal or vertical individualism.

Conclusions

Findings suggest that trait mindfulness can predict either greater or lesser prosocial behavior depending on people's preexisting social goals and identities, and that this pattern is not limited to vertical individualism.

Preregistration

This study is not preregistered.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Trait Mindfulness and Prosocial Behavior: The Moderating Role of Self-Construals and Individualism
Auteurs
Michael J. Poulin
Lauren M. Ministero
C. Dale Shaffer-Morrison
Kathleen Finnerty
Leslie Mei
Imokhuede Nathaniel Zedomi
Shira Gabriel
Publicatiedatum
18-01-2025
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Mindfulness
Print ISSN: 1868-8527
Elektronisch ISSN: 1868-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-024-02512-5