Prosocial Helping
Dimension 841 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Prosocial Helping measures the tendency to care about other people and to act on that concern through kindness, support, sharing, and voluntary service. It encompasses both affiliative concern for others' feelings and active efforts to be useful, helpful, and giving.
evidence final name · Help Volunteer
Minimal Prosocial Helping
Expressions activating this band show little clear evidence of helping-oriented concern or action, with content that is diffuse, incidental, or only loosely related to others' needs.
Low Prosocial Helping
Expressions activating this band reflect considerate, affectionate, or sympathetic regard for other people, with helping expressed mainly as interpersonal niceness and sensitivity to feelings.
Moderate Prosocial Helping
Expressions activating this band reflect active helpfulness in everyday situations, such as offering assistance, being useful to others, checking in with neighbors, or helping when someone is hurt, upset, or ill.
High Prosocial Helping
Expressions activating this band reflect a stable self-view as a giving person who regularly shares time and effort, helps others broadly, and finds satisfaction in doing so.
Very High Prosocial Helping
Expressions activating this band reflect organized and frequent voluntary service, including volunteering, donating, and sustained involvement in helping activities for the local community or people in need.
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Minimal Help Volunteer: Content characterized by give, pain, policy, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect help volunteer at this level.
Emerging Help Volunteer: Content characterized by hidden, bad, sorry, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect help volunteer at this level.
Elevated Help Volunteer: Content characterized by rick, school, help, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect help volunteer at this level.
Severe Help Volunteer: Content characterized by help, offer, public, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect help volunteer at this level.