Belief in a Just World and Moral Personality as Mediating Roles Between Parenting Emotional Warmth and Internet Altruistic Behavior

Ye Zhang; Liang Chen; Yumeng Xia

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.670373

Belief in a Just World and Moral Personality as Mediating Roles Between Parenting Emotional Warmth and Internet Altruistic Behavior

Front Psychol. 2021 Oct 6:12:670373. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.670373. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Ye Zhang¹, Liang Chen², Yumeng Xia³

Affiliations

¹ College of Educational Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, China.
² School of Marxism, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, China.
³ The Communist Youth League, State Grid Anshan Electric Power Supply Company, Anshan, China.

Abstract

This study explores the influence of parental emotional warmth (PEW) on college students' Internet altruistic behavior (IAB), and the mediating roles of personal belief in a just world (PBJW) and positive moral personality traits (PMPT). A total of 893 college students were assessed using questionnaires. Results: (1) PEW, PBJW, PMPT, and IAB are positively correlated with each other; (2) PEW can directly predict the IAB of college students; and (3) PEW can indirectly predict IAB through the mediating effect of PMPT and PBJW-PMPT. PBJW and PMPT account for 22.79% of the total influence of PEW on IAB.

Keywords: belief in a just world; internet altruistic behavior; mediation effect; moral personality; parental emotional warmth.