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  • The study explored how different kinds of prosocial behavior (like helping others) relate to physical aggression among 252 college students.
  • It found that sympathy plays a significant role in these relationships, fully mediating compliant prosocial behaviors and partially mediating altruism and public prosocial behaviors in relation to physical aggression.
  • Overall, the research suggests that the relationship between prosocial behavior and aggression is nuanced, indicating that prosocial behavior encompasses various types and shouldn't be viewed as a single concept.

Article Abstract

The direct and indirect relations between six types of prosocial behavior and physical aggression were examined. Data were gathered from 252 college students (M age = 21.67 years; 184 women) who completed measures of sympathy, prosocial behavior, and physical aggression. Structural equation modeling revealed that sympathy fully mediated the relations between compliant prosocial behaviors and physical aggression, and partially mediated the relations between altruism and physical aggression and public prosocial behaviors and physical aggression. The findings suggest that the relations between prosocial behaviors and aggression are complex and that prosocial behavior should not be treated as a unitary construct.

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