Altruism and subjective well-being in the context of covid-19 pandemic: a social cognition research
International Journal of Development Research
Altruism and subjective well-being in the context of covid-19 pandemic: a social cognition research
Received 20th August, 2021; Received in revised form 03rd September, 2021; Accepted 09th October, 2021; Published online 30th November, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Henriette Barqueta Moreira de Lucena et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article was based on studies on beliefs in altruism and subjective well-being in the context of pandemics, in the context of Social Cognition. This constitutes a field of studies that investigates psychic processes and mental contents in the context of social interactions. The following question was defined as a problem to guide this article: what relationships can be established between beliefs in altruism and in the subjective well-being of people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic? From there, the following objectives were established: to analyze the concept of social cognition and beliefs; to study the theme of altruism as an agent of subjective well-being in times of the Covid-19 pandemic and to carry out empirical research on the relationship between beliefs in altruism and subjective well-being. Methodologically, it is an empirical, quantitative, descriptive research, carried out with 303 Brazilians who responded to the altruism scales; subjective well-being through positive and negative affects and life satisfaction, whose results revealed that there was a significant correlation of weak intensity between subjective well-being, related to life satisfaction, and altruism, related to well-being of the next.
