Objective:To investigate the impact of social responsibility on youths'prosocial behavior and the mediat-ing role of positive affect and the moderating role of social class on this relationship.Methods:A total of 1808 participants in Beijing(age from 18～35)were tested by Social Responsibility Scale,Prosocial Tendency Measurement Scale,Positive Af-fect Scale and self-reported social class.Results:(1)Social responsibility positively predicted youths'prosocial behavior;(2)Positive affect served as the mediating mechanism that accounted for the effect of social responsibility on youths'proso-cial behavior;(3)Social class moderated the direct and indirect paths between social responsibility and youths'prosocial behavior.Social class enhanced the positive effect of social responsibility and positive affect on youths'prosocial behavior.Conclusion:Youth's sense of social responsibility directly predicted prosocial behavior and also indirectly exerted a posi-tive effect on prosocial behavior through positive affect.High social class enhanced the positive influence of youth's sense of social responsibility and positive affect on prosocial behavior.
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社会责任感/亲社会行为/积极情绪/社会阶层/青年
Key words
Social responsibility/Prosocial behavior/Positive affect/Social class/Youth
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