Personality Matters to Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic, but Prosociality Helps too

This is an online experiment that examines the effectiveness of prosocial behavior on subjective well-being. Dispositional traits, such as participants' level of neuroticism and mattering to others are also measured as moderators of the theorized association between prosociality and well-being. Datasets from both Study 1 (examining effect of prosocial spending on well-being) and Study 2 (examining effect of kindness acts on well-being) are uploaded for reference. Study 1 takes place across the baseline, Week 1 and Week 2 follow-up timepoints. Study 2 takes place across the baseline, Week 1, Week 6 and Week 7 follow-up timepoints.