ABSTRACT

The current study sought to determine how prosocial behaviors reflecting various motivations (altruistic and public prosocial behaviors) and situations (i.e., anonymous, compliant, dire, and emotional prosocial behaviors) jointly inform subtypes of prosocial personality groups. Undergraduates (N = 324, M age = 19.47 years, 80% female) completed a measure of these six prosocial behaviors (Prosocial Tendencies Measure-Revised). Latent profile analysis results supported a three-group solution: altruistic helpers (AH), public helpers (PH), and altruistic idealists (AI). The AH and AI profiles were defined by elevated altruistic prosocial behaviors, but the AH profile was higher on situational helping and socioemotive and sociocognitive correlates. The PH profile was characterized by elevated public prosocial behaviors and moderate levels of situational helping. These identified profiles support multiple competing ideas of the true nature of prosocial personality, but also introduce the possibility that some individuals idealize motives but fail to engage in behavior.

摘要

当前的研究试图确定反映各种动机（利他和公共亲社会行为）和情况（即匿名，顺从，可怕和情感亲社会行为）的亲社会行为如何共同告知亲社会人格群体的亚型。大学生（N  = 324，M年龄= 19.47岁，女性80％）完成了这六项亲社会行为的测评（Prosocial Trends Measure-Revised）。潜在特征分析结果支持三组解决方案：利他主义的帮助者（AH），公共帮助者（PH）和利他主义的理想主义者（AI）。AH和AI的特征是由利他的亲社会行为的增加所决定的，但是AH的特征在情境帮助，社会情感和社会认知的相关性上较高。PH的特征是公众亲社会行为提高和适度的情境帮助水平。这些确定的个人资料支持亲社会性人格的真实本性的多种相互竞争的观点，但也引入了某些人理想化动机但未能参与行为的可能性。