Social Value Orientation Moderated the Effect of Acute Stress on Individuals’ Prosocial Behaviors
Acute stress is believed to lead to prosocial behaviors via a “tend-and-befriend” pattern of stress response. However, the results of the effect of acute stress on prosocial behavior are inconsistent. The current study explores the moderating effect of gender and social value orientation on the rela...
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| description | Acute stress is believed to lead to prosocial behaviors via a “tend-and-befriend” pattern of stress response. However, the results of the effect of acute stress on prosocial behavior are inconsistent. The current study explores the moderating effect of gender and social value orientation on the relationship between acute stress and individuals’ pure prosocial behaviors (i.e., pure prosociality and prosocial third-party punishment). Specifically, eighty-one participants were selected and underwent the Trier Social Stress Test (or were in the control group), followed by the third-party punishment task and the dictator game. The results showed that, in general, the main effect of condition or respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reactivity on individual prosocial behaviors was significant and did not vary between genders. Furthermore, social value orientation (i.e., prosocial or self-orientation) might moderate the impact of RSA reactivity on the amount of punishment in the third-party punishment task. That is, individuals with self-orientation exhibited more prosocial third-party punishment as RSA reactivity decreased, while the effect did not occur for individuals with prosocial orientation. Taken together, the findings of the current study provide further evidence for the “tend-and-befriend” hypothesis and highlight the underlying physical mechanisms as well as the individual dependence of the effect of psychosocial stress on individuals’ pure prosocial behaviors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d2279299e3b646c280ae90c3633bfe2f2022-12-21T18:42:29ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-03-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.803184803184Social Value Orientation Moderated the Effect of Acute Stress on Individuals’ Prosocial BehaviorsLiuhua YingQin YanXin ShenChengmian ZhangAcute stress is believed to lead to prosocial behaviors via a “tend-and-befriend” pattern of stress response. However, the results of the effect of acute stress on prosocial behavior are inconsistent. The current study explores the moderating effect of gender and social value orientation on the relationship between acute stress and individuals’ pure prosocial behaviors (i.e., pure prosociality and prosocial third-party punishment). Specifically, eighty-one participants were selected and underwent the Trier Social Stress Test (or were in the control group), followed by the third-party punishment task and the dictator game. The results showed that, in general, the main effect of condition or respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reactivity on individual prosocial behaviors was significant and did not vary between genders. Furthermore, social value orientation (i.e., prosocial or self-orientation) might moderate the impact of RSA reactivity on the amount of punishment in the third-party punishment task. That is, individuals with self-orientation exhibited more prosocial third-party punishment as RSA reactivity decreased, while the effect did not occur for individuals with prosocial orientation. Taken together, the findings of the current study provide further evidence for the “tend-and-befriend” hypothesis and highlight the underlying physical mechanisms as well as the individual dependence of the effect of psychosocial stress on individuals’ pure prosocial behaviors.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.803184/fullstress reactivityTrier Social Stress Testsocial value orientationthird-party punishment taskdictator gametend-and-befriend |
| spellingShingle | Liuhua Ying Qin Yan Xin Shen Chengmian Zhang Social Value Orientation Moderated the Effect of Acute Stress on Individuals’ Prosocial Behaviors Frontiers in Psychology stress reactivity Trier Social Stress Test social value orientation third-party punishment task dictator game tend-and-befriend |
| title | Social Value Orientation Moderated the Effect of Acute Stress on Individuals’ Prosocial Behaviors |
| title_full | Social Value Orientation Moderated the Effect of Acute Stress on Individuals’ Prosocial Behaviors |
| title_fullStr | Social Value Orientation Moderated the Effect of Acute Stress on Individuals’ Prosocial Behaviors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Value Orientation Moderated the Effect of Acute Stress on Individuals’ Prosocial Behaviors |
| title_short | Social Value Orientation Moderated the Effect of Acute Stress on Individuals’ Prosocial Behaviors |
| title_sort | social value orientation moderated the effect of acute stress on individuals prosocial behaviors |
| topic | stress reactivity Trier Social Stress Test social value orientation third-party punishment task dictator game tend-and-befriend |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.803184/full |
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