Prosociality’s New Role In An Increasingly Self-Oriented Society

In this paper we concern ourselves with what role prosocial behaviour plays in the interrelation between self-esteem and subjective well-being. We suspect a mediating relationship of the former between the latter two and use two OLS regression and a Sobel Test to verify our hypothesis. In addition to our main aim, we also enquired into the possibility for agreeableness to be the suspected mediator rather than prosocial behaviour. The results at the end of this research run contrary to our initial expectations and refute the hypothesis made at the beginning. Nevertheless, we reveal that agreeableness partially mediates the relationship between a self-esteem and one component of subjective well-being. To this day these relationships are not researched very extensively, and we hope that our findings can spur further scientific enquiry into the field.