Does compassion for oneself extend to prosocial behavior for others? Examining the relationship between self-compassion and prosocial behavior using multilevel meta-analysis

IF 3.5 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2025-01-14 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2025.113047

Xinyi Liu , Jiayi Li, Xu Chen

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Self-compassion refers a positive attitude towards oneself, known to enhance individuals' psychological well-being. Its impact on interpersonal functions remains incompletely understood. A meta-analysis of research examining its relationship with prosocial behavior, delineating both overall and sub-components levels (i.e., self-warmth and self-coldness). From 59 studies (N = 39,625) yielding 369 effect sizes, multilevel meta-analysis revealed that self-compassion exhibits small-to-medium positive associations with general prosocial behavior and its diverse manifestations. Similar effect sizes were observed for the relationship between self-warmth and prosocial behavior, while self-coldness fails to yield significant effects. Moderation analysis indicated that the positive impact of self-compassion on prosocial behavior is contingent upon cultural context, types of prosocial behavior and sub-components of self-compassion. The association between self-warmth and prosocial behavior manifests variability across age groups. Future research should delve into the mediators of above links and the contexts in which it is most pronounced.

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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8.50

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4.70%

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577

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41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.