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APPENDIX B
TYPES OF PROSOCIAL ACTIONS (UNIPRO):
1. Physical help: Nonverbal behaviour that strives to assist other people to meet a specific
objective, and which has these people’s approval.
2. Physical service: Behaviour that eliminates the need for the recipients of the action to
physically intervene to achieve a goal or complete a task, and which concludes with these
people’s approval or satisfaction.
3. Giving and sharing: Delivering objects, foods or possessions to others, thus relinquishing
one’s own ownership or use of them.
4. Verbal help: A verbal explanation or instruction, or sharing ideas of life experiences, which
are useful and desirable for other people or groups for achieving an objective.
5. Verbal consolation: Verbal expressions to mitigate the sadness of people who are in pain or
difficult situations and bolstering their spirits.
6. Confirmation and positive valuation of someone else: Verbal expression to confirm the
value of other people or bolster their self-esteem, even in front of others. (Positively
interpreting others’ behaviours, asking for forgiveness, interceding through words of
sympathy or praise.)
7. In-depth listening: Meta-verbal, caring behaviours and attitudes that express patient
acceptance yet is actively oriented towards the contents expressed by the interlocutor in a
conversation.
8. Empathy: Verbal behaviours that, based on a voluntary emptying of one’s own contents,
express cognitive understanding of the thoughts of the interlocutor or the emotion of
experiencing similar feelings to the other person.
9. Solidarity: Physical or verbal behaviours that express a voluntary willingness to share the
consequences, especially painful ones, of the condition, status, situation or bad luck of other
people, groups or countries.
10. Positive presence and unity: Personal presence that expresses attitudes of psychological
proximity, care, in-depth listening, empathy, availability for service, help and solidarity with
other people, which contributes to the psychological climate of well-being, peace, concord,
reciprocity and unity in a group or gathering of two or more people.
APPENDIX C
PROSOCIAL ACTION REGISTRATION FILE
1. NAME OF THE ACTOR (or last four ID digits)
• Date
• E-mail or contact telephone:
2. BACKGROUND: (indications of need perceived by the actor)
3. TYPE: (mark those from the ten possible categories)
• Physical help
• Physical service
• Giving or sharing
• Verbal help
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