This research aims to elucidate the connection of perceived health and financial threat linked to the COVID-19 pandemic with the willingness to engage in prosocial and antisocial behaviors, while also testing the potential mediating role of empathic concern. During the lockdown period, a sample of Spanish community members (N = 702) filled in a multi-measure online survey. Our results revealed that (a) COVID-19 health (but not financial) threat predicted a greater tendency to express prosocial actions, (b) none of these forms of COVID-19 threat predicted antisocial inclinations, and (c) empathic concern mediated the effects of COVID-19 health threat on both prosocial and antisocial tendencies. Findings speak to the ongoing debate about whether individuals most psychologically impacted by the pandemic would tend to respond in a more prosocial or antisocial manner.

这项研究旨在阐明与 COVID-19 大流行相关的感知健康和财务威胁与参与亲社会和反社会行为的意愿之间的联系，同时还测试共情关注的潜在中介作用。在封锁期间，西班牙社区成员样本（N = 702) 填写了多项在线调查。我们的结果显示，(a) COVID-19 健康（但不是经济）威胁预示着表达亲社会行为的更大倾向，(b) 这些形式的 COVID-19 威胁都没有预示反社会倾向，以及 (c) 移情关注介导了COVID-19 健康威胁对亲社会和反社会倾向的影响。调查结果说明了正在进行的辩论，即受大流行病心理影响最大的个人是否会倾向于以更亲社会或反社会的方式做出反应。