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When altruists cannot help: The influence of altruism on the mental health of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020-06-12

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background: </bold>The positive predictive effect of altruism on physical and psychological well-being has been extensively demonstrated in previous studies, but few studies have examined the effect of altruism on negative mental health outcomes when altruists cannot perform altruistic behaviours. This study explored the influence of altruism on negative affect and mental health (...

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Literature Corpus work: b2731da1-0b0b-5c41-b8c8-21bdba297046
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-25715/v2

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