Moral Identity and College Students’ Prosocial Behavior Tendency: The Mediating Effect of Empathy and the Moderating Effect of Mindfulness

  • GUO Ying ,
  • CHEN Canjie ,
  • HU Dong ,
  • YUAN Anyi
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  • College of Psychology, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610066

Received date: 2021-08-10

  Online published: 2022-01-20

Abstract

This study aimed to explore the mechanism of the influence of moral identity on college students’ prosocial behavior tendency by conducting a survey on 533 college students with Moral Identity Measure, Interpersonal Reactivity Index, Prosocial Tendencies Measure, and Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire. The results showed that: 1) both internalization and symbolization were significantly positively related to college students’ prosocial behavior tendency; 2) empathy played a partial mediating role in the effect of internalization and symbolization on college students’ prosocial behavior tendency; 3) mindfulness played a moderating role in the effect of internalization and symbolization on college students’ prosocial behavior tendency. Mindfulness weakened the positive effect of moral identity symbolization on prosocial behavior tendency, while it enhanced the positive effect of empathy on prosocial behavior tendency.

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GUO Ying , CHEN Canjie , HU Dong , YUAN Anyi . Moral Identity and College Students’ Prosocial Behavior Tendency: The Mediating Effect of Empathy and the Moderating Effect of Mindfulness[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2022 , 20(1) : 80 -87 . DOI: 10.12139/j.1672-0628.2022.01.012

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