Abstract

NAVARRO PERALES, Nichole Adriana Francoise  and  PACHECO CAMACHO, Marcelo Pablo. Facing uncertainty in pandemic times: peacebuilding from a prosociality stance. Revista de Psicologia [online]. 2023, n.29, pp.29-50. ISSN 2223-3032.  https://doi.org/10.53287/fkug9747et82m.

Peacebuilding studies from a prosociality stance is a new area in psychosocial research in Bolivia, even more if there is an academic marked intention to rescue and highlight the presence of psychological communal health, in a time characterized by a powerful uncertainty derived from the combination of two unfortunate factors: political violence and instability coupled with the presence of the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent sanitary emergency and social stress. In this research, 400 young adults have participated, all of them among 20 to 30 years old (162 men and 268 women) from La Paz and El Alto cities, with the objective of describing the relationship between specific mechanisms to face uncertainty and the possible presence of associated prosocial behaviors in 2020 and 2021. A positive, significant correlation was found between prosociality and effective uncertainty-facing mechanisms, implying the possibility to execute peacebuilding conducts as a way to adapt to the pandemic. It has also been established that there is a great degree of similitude in regards to effective prosocial behaviors in La Paz and in El Alto cities, that in the zones where a greater number of positive cases was found, there was also a larger presence of prosociality, especially in La Paz, and that there are detailed executional differences between men and women in terms of prosocial in-pandemic behavior.

Keywords : Prosociality; Political Uncertainty; Sanitary Emergency; Peacebuilding; Psychological Health.

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