RESEARCH ARTICLE
Strategies of Prosocial Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Pavel A. Kislyakov1, *, Elena A. Shmeleva1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2021Volume: 14
First Page: 266
Last Page: 272
Publisher ID: TOPSYJ-14-266
DOI: 10.2174/1874350102114010266
Article History:
Received Date: 03/2/2021Revision Received Date: 05/7/2021
Acceptance Date: 30/7/2021
Electronic publication date: 10/11/2021
Collection year: 2021
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
To mitigate the potentially devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is vital to identify psychosocial and moral resources. The care, preservation, protection, and well-being of social communities are attributes of prosocial behavior that can be such a resource.
Aim:
The purpose of the study is to identify the features of prosocial orientation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods:
The sample consisted of 447 people. The study was conducted in May 2020 in the form of an online survey of subjects using Google Forms (“Portrait Values Questionnaire”).
Results:
The research made it possible to establish that participants were dominated by values of benevolence-universalism. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the prosocial orientation may manifest itself in the following behavioral strategies: proactive prosocial strategy of “caring for others” (true altruism, expressed in forms of volunteering, helping a stranger, and charity despite the risk of contracting a coronavirus infection); egoistic strategy of prosocial behavior “self-care through caring for others” (volunteering based on self-development; helping a stranger to improve your own psychological well-being); conventional prosocial strategy “self-care” (self-isolation and preventive behavior).
Conclusion:
In the long run, it is necessary to identify personal and environmental resources that can allow people to effectively implement a prosocial self-isolation strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as various forms of volunteerism.
