Prosocial behavior increases perceptions of meaning in life

By Nadav Klein. 2017

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Subfields: Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/11d92fcb467cf6e2e7f3f8d0b1d53bef741287ad

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In Social Psychology

1. K. Masters
2. S. Hooker
3. Fernando García
4. Óscar F. García
5. Emilia Serra
6. Crystal L. Park
7. Juan José Zacarés
8. Login S. George

Citations in the corpus

• A Meaningful Life is a Healthy Life: A Conceptual Model Linking Meaning and Meaning Salience to Health (2018, background): “Klein (2017) manipulated prosocial behavior (spend $5 on yourself or on somebody else) and demonstrated that doing something for another person was related to greater experienced meaning in life.”
• Parenting Styles and Short- and Long-term Socialization Outcomes: A Study among Spanish Adolescents and Older Adults (2018, background): “, Rudy & Grusec, 2006) and is considered as a key indicator of personal adjustment and well-being (Klein, 2017; Meléndez-Moral, FortunaTerrero, Sales-Galán, & Mayordomo-Rodríguez, 2015; Musitu, Jimenez, Murgui, 2007; Riquelme, García, & Serra, 2018; Veiga, García, Reeve, Wentzel, & García, 2015).”