title: The Contribution of Agreeableness and Self-efficacy Beliefs to Prosociality.
abstract: The present study examined how agreeableness and self-efficacy beliefs about responding empathically to others' needs predict individuals' prosociality across time. Participants were 377 adolescents (66% males) aged 16 at Time 1 and 18 at Time 2 who took part at this study. Measures of agreeableness, empathic self-efficacy and prosociality were collected at two time points. The findings corroborated the posited paths of relations to assigning agreeableness a major role in predicting the level of individuals' prosociality. Empathic self-efficacy beliefs partially mediated the relation of agreeableness to prosociality. The posited conceptual model accounted for a significant portion of variance in prosociality and provides guidance with respect to interventions aimed at promoting prosociality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, 'Sapienza' University of Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Gian Vittorio
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Caprara
authors.forename: Guido
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Alessandri
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: DI Giunta
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Panerai
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Eisenberg