Altruism Born of Suffering and Prosocial Behavior Following Adverse Life Events: A Review and Conceptualization

By J. Vollhardt. 2009

301 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Social Psychology

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In Health

1. J. Drury
2. R. Bilali
3. Jo-Anne Wemmers
4. Tinneke Van Camp
5. Arie W. Kruglanski
6. Katarzyna Jaśko
7. J. Vollhardt

In Social Psychology

1. J. Drury
2. R. Bilali
3. Katarzyna Jaśko
4. J. Vollhardt
5. Jo-Anne Wemmers
6. Tinneke Van Camp
7. Arie W. Kruglanski
8. D. Engstrom

Citations in the corpus

• Victim satisfaction with restorative justice (2013, background): “Similarly, Vollhardt (2009) observed that victims of a variety of adverse events, including interpersonal violence, can feel the need to help others who suffer from trauma.”
• Exploring the Impact of Trauma on Therapists: Vicarious Resilience and Related Concepts in Training (2010, background): “Vollhardt states that “something about the experience of suffering— either the situation itself, the psychological processes that accompany it, or additional experiences that transform the meaning of suffering may give rise to altruism and prosocial behavior” (2009, p. 60). Altruism requires a focus”
• The Role of Inclusive and Exclusive Victim Consciousness in Predicting Intergroup Attitudes: Findings from Rwanda, Burundi, and DRC (2015, background): “However, it is in line with other research indicating that personal victimization can motivate prosocial attitudes and behaviors (Vollhardt, 2009b).”
• The Making of Violent Extremists (2018, background): “In line with this reasoning, the experience of suffering and adversity has been found to enhance the motivation to help others, including outgroups—partly because such behavior was seen to restore a sense of meaning in life (Vollhardt, 2009).”
• Catastrophe Compassion: Understanding and Extending Prosociality Under Crisis (2020, unknown): “Such adversity often generates increases in prosocial behavior, which Staub and Vollhardt [14] have termed 'altruism born of suffering'.”
• The role of social identity processes in mass emergency behaviour: An integrative review (2018, background): “(2015) used the notion “altruism born of suffering” (Staub & Vollhardt, 2006; Vollhardt, 2009)(11) to explain why experiencing the disaster led to shared identification and support, paralleling the notion of common fate in the social identity approach.”