The Influence Of College Students’ Prosocial Behavior Tendency On The Sense Of Life Meaning: The Chain Mediating Effect Of Interpersonal Satisfaction And Self-concept

The sense of meaning of life is people’s understanding and experience of their purpose of life and value of existence.Sense of life meaning plays an important role to individual psychological health,loss of sense of meaning will lead to the individual produce the negative emotions,such as depression,pessimism that life has no value and significance,can produce the extreme ideas such as suicide,thereby raising the awareness of meaning of life,can grasp the clear about the purpose of your life,enhance people’s enthusiasm and yearn for positive living.People can obtain and enhance the sense of meaning of life through various channels.Prosocial behavior is considered to be an activity that can obtain value and meaning beyond the self.People can enhance interpersonal distance and have good social relations while carrying out prosocial behavior.At the same time,when people realize that they can influence others through their ability,they also feel a sense of accomplishment and competence,which leads to a positive view of themselves and a higher level of self-concept.Prosocial behavior is often considered as a behavioral outcome variable,but previous studies rarely consider the value experience of the behavior to the helper itself,and individuals with a prosocial psychological tendency have a greater willingness to help others.From the perspective of social psychology,this study attempted to explore the influence of prosocial behavioral orientation on life meaning and its internal mechanism.In this study,405 college students were surveyed with prosocial Behavior Tendency Scale,Interpersonal Relationship Satisfaction Scale,Self-Concept Scale and Sense of Life Meaning Scale.356 valid questionnaires were collected with a recovery rate of 87.90%.SPSS26.0 was used for data analysis,and PROCESS macro was used for chain mediation test.The results showed that:（1）College students’ prosocial behavior tendency,interpersonal relationship satisfaction,self-concept and sense of life meaning are all above average level.（2）There are demographic differences in college students’ sense of life meaning,prosocial behavior tendency and interpersonal relationship satisfaction.Specifically,in terms of religious belief,religious college students’ sense of life meaning,prosocial behavior tendency and interpersonal relationship satisfaction score are higher than those without religious belief.In terms of age,college students in the higher age group have a stronger sense of life meaning than those in the lower age group.（3）There is a significant positive correlation between prosocial behavior tendency,interpersonal satisfaction,self-concept and sense of life meaning.With the increase of prosocial behavior tendency,interpersonal satisfaction and self-concept level,the level of life meaning also increased.（4）College students’ prosocial behavior tendency,interpersonal satisfaction and self-concept can positively predict their sense of life meaning.（5）There was a mediating effect between interpersonal satisfaction and prosocial behavioral orientation on life meaning,a mediating effect between self-concept and prosocial behavioral orientation on life meaning,and a chain mediating effect between interpersonal satisfaction and self-concept on prosocial behavioral orientation on life meaning.In conclusion,college students’ prosocial behavior tendency can influence individual’s self-concept and ultimately life meaning through influencing individual’s interpersonal relationship satisfaction.This inspires people to strengthen their own moral cultivation,willing to contribute,do beneficial behavior to the society and others,can harvest meaningful value experience to life.