Does loneliness necessarily lead to a decrease in prosocial behavior? The roles of gender and situation

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue SEP, 2016, Pages

  Huang, Heqing ^a   Liu, Yanchun ^b   Liu, Xiaocen ^a  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China Youth University of Political Studies   (China)

Author keywords

Gender difference; Loneliness; Loneliness perpetuation perspective; Loneliness reduction perspective; Prosocial behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992695862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01388     Document Type: Article

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