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| Title |
Long-Term Relations Among Prosocial-Media Use, Empathy, and Prosocial Behavior
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| Published in |
Psychological Science, December 2013
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| DOI | 10.1177/0956797613503854 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sara Prot, Douglas A. Gentile, Craig A. Anderson, Kanae Suzuki, Edward Swing, Kam Ming Lim, Yukiko Horiuchi, Margareta Jelic, Barbara Krahé, Wei Liuqing, Albert K. Liau, Angeline Khoo, Poesis Diana Petrescu, Akira Sakamoto, Sachi Tajima, Roxana Andreea Toma, Wayne Warburton, Xuemin Zhang, Ben Chun Pan Lam |
| Abstract |
Despite recent growth of research on the effects of prosocial media, processes underlying these effects are not well understood. Two studies explored theoretically relevant mediators and moderators of the effects of prosocial media on helping. Study 1 examined associations among prosocial- and violent-media use, empathy, and helping in samples from seven countries. Prosocial-media use was positively associated with helping. This effect was mediated by empathy and was similar across cultures. Study 2 explored longitudinal relations among prosocial-video-game use, violent-video-game use, empathy, and helping in a large sample of Singaporean children and adolescents measured three times across 2 years. Path analyses showed significant longitudinal effects of prosocial- and violent-video-game use on prosocial behavior through empathy. Latent-growth-curve modeling for the 2-year period revealed that change in video-game use significantly affected change in helping, and that this relationship was mediated by change in empathy. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 30 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 13% |
| France | 2 | 7% |
| Japan | 2 | 7% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 7% |
| Brazil | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Denmark | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| Belgium | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 10% |
| Unknown | 12 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 19 | 63% |
| Scientists | 7 | 23% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 10% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 449 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1% |
| Germany | 3 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 433 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 67 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 62 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 53 | 12% |
| Researcher | 42 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 23 | 5% |
| Other | 92 | 20% |
| Unknown | 110 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 181 | 40% |
| Social Sciences | 48 | 11% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 22 | 5% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 2% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 2% |
| Other | 54 | 12% |
| Unknown | 123 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 114. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 October 2021.
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#371,541
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#850
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#3,411
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#35
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