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Prosociality and life satisfaction: A daily-diary investigation among Spanish university students

2018

Abstract With a diary study, we tested the positive effect of prosociality on life satisfaction. Fifty-six Spanish undergraduate students (45 females; Mage = 21.08 years) rated their life satisfaction, prosociality, self-esteem, and physical appearance for 5 consecutive days. Multilevel results indicated that within-individual positive deviations in prosociality (i.e., behaving more prosocial than usual) were uniquely and significantly associated with higher life satisfaction on that specific day. Students' self-esteem, physical appearance, and positive daily events were also predictive of life satisfaction. Exploratory analyses revealed that the positive effect of prosociality on life sati…

self-esteemlife satisfaction; multilevel modeling; physical appearance; prosociality; self-esteemphysical appearancemedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesMultilevel modelprosocialitySelf-esteemLife satisfaction050109 social psychologyDaily eventsHuman physical appearanceDaily diary050105 experimental psychologyDevelopmental psychologyProsocial behaviorEarly adulthood0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesPsychologylife satisfactionmultilevel modelingGeneral Psychologymedia_commonPersonality and Individual Differences
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Fomento de la interacción social (conducta prosocial): correlatos neurobiológicos en el Transtorno de Espectro Autista

2015

Recientemente se ha observado un enorme incremento en la prevalencia del Trastorno de Espectro Autista (TEA) cuyos síntomas nucleares están relacionados con el déficit marcado en la comunicación e interacción social. El objetivo del trabajo fue realizar una revisión de la literatura sobre los factores neurobiológicos implicados en el fomento de la conducta social (conducta prosocial) en el TEA, en la última década. Las hormonas y neurotransmisores más relevantes serían la oxitocina, la vasopresina, la serotonina, andrógenos y estrógenos. En cuanto a neuroanatomía y sistema neuronales destacan la ínsula anterior, la amígdala, la zona fronto-parietal, el giro fusiforme y el sistema de neurona…

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