The Influence of Social Support among Prisoners on Prosocial Behavior Tendency: Serial Multiple Mediation of Coping Style and Hope

LIN Siqin; LI Siqi; PANG Hairong; XIAO Fang; LI Qiming

doi:10.12100/j.issn.2096-5494.220006

2020 , Vol. 3 >Issue 2: 107 - 114

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12100/j.issn.2096-5494.220006

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The Influence of Social Support among Prisoners on Prosocial Behavior Tendency: Serial Multiple Mediation of Coping Style and Hope

LIN Siqin ,
LI Siqi ,
PANG Hairong ,
XIAO Fang ,
LI Qiming

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¹Psychological Research and Counseling Center, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China;
²Education Center, Sichuan Chuanxi Prison, Chengdu 610016, China

^* XIAO Fang, xiaofangbox@qq.com

Online published: 2024-10-18

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Social support is beneficial to the promotion of the adaptation of positive coping strategies among people. Meanwhile, it can also promote prosocial behaviors. However, the influence mechanism between the social support of prisoners and the prosocial behavior tendency is unclear. For this reason, the aim of this study is to examine the relationship between social support and prosocial behavior among prisoners under the influence of hope and coping style. A total of 309 prisoners were recruited and surveyed using the Social Support Scale (Prisoner's Edition), the Trait Coping Style Questionnaire (TCSQ), the Adult Dispositional Hope Scale (ADHS), and the Prosocial Tendencies Measure (PTM). The results show that: (1) social support was positively correlated with positive and low coping styles, hope, and prosocial behavior tendency scores. Positive coping styles, hope, and prosocial behavior tendencies scores were moderately and positively correlated. Negative coping style and low negative correlation between variables; (2) prisoners' social support positively predicted prosocial behavioral tendencies with significance; (3) social support of prisoners indirectly affected prosocial behavioral tendencies using coping style and hope as serial multiple mediators. The study results suggest that the social support of prisoners can directly or indirectly promote prosocial behavioral tendencies, which has implications for the reform of prison management and prisoners so as to helping prisoners strengthen their ability to reintegrate into society and reduce recidivism rates.

Key words： prisoners; social support; coping style; hope; prosocial behavioral tendency

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LIN Siqin , LI Siqi , PANG Hairong , XIAO Fang , LI Qiming . The Influence of Social Support among Prisoners on Prosocial Behavior Tendency: Serial Multiple Mediation of Coping Style and Hope[J]. Psychological Communications, 2020 , 3(2) : 107 -114 . DOI: 10.12100/j.issn.2096-5494.220006

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