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By definition, compassionate actions aim to relieve suffering. Perhaps one barrier to compassion is a general lack of belief in the efficacy of one’s actions. Further, beliefs of inefficacy may relate to how coherently and stably one represents themselves; and action beliefs may mediate the recently identified correlation between self-concept clarity and helping behaviours. Using a pre-registered design in two online samples totaling 484 participants, we investigate associations between self-reported self-concept clarity, action beliefs, and compassionate action (for self and others). As an objective measure of compassionate behaviour, participants are given an opportunity to donate to charity. Our data provides decisive evidence for moderate to large correlations between self-concept clarity, general sense of agency, self-efficacy and self-reported compassionate action. In both samples, the action belief variables mediate the effect of self-concept clarity on self-reported compassion. Surprisingly, none of the measures were predictive of donation in either sample. |
