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Doing More than Expected: The Role of The Recipient's Neediness in Children's Perception of Their Relative Prosociality
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Bar Levy-Friedman; Tehila Kogut – Child Development, 2025
This study examined children's self-assessment of their prosociality, relative to average peers, in situations where the recipient is described as "needy" versus "not needy" (at a school of average socioeconomic level in south Israel; N = 158; aged 6-12 years; 51% males, December-May 2021). The results show that older children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Prosocial Behavior
Young Children's Trust and Sharing Decisions
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Hüseyin Kotaman; Mustafa Aslan – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2024
The purpose of this study is to investigate how young children define trust and to find out if there is a relationship between the people whom they trust and the people with whom they share their favorite food and toy. The participants consist of 273 kindergarteners enrolled in five public kindergartens. Research assistants asked the participants…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Decision Making, Sharing Behavior, Food
Sharing and Belonging: Children's Social Status and Their Sharing Behavior with In-Group and Out-Group Members
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Sabato, Hagit; Kogut, Tehila – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The association between children's social-status within their peer-group and their prosociality was examined among fourth and sixth graders (N = 276), using sociometric nominations, and actual sharing with a fellow in-group member, or a member of an out-group. Results show an overall increase in sharing with age, and an overall correlation between…
Descriptors: Social Status, Peer Relationship, Prosocial Behavior, Grade 4
Cross-Age Peer Tutoring in a Technology-Enhanced STEAM Project at a Lower Secondary School
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Tenhovirta, Satu; Korhonen, Tiina; Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita; Hakkarainen, Kai – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
The present investigation examined cross-age peer tutoring in the context of organising a technology-enhanced STEAM project aimed at bringing elements of maker culture to a lower secondary school. We examined how 8th graders tutored 7th graders in programming skills. The participants were peer tutors (n = 15) studying in a technology-oriented…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Grade 8, Grade 7
Online Testing of Hungarian Children's Prosocial Behavior
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Zsolnai, Anikó; Kasik, László – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2017
The aim of our cross-sectional investigation was to explore prosocial behavior at the ages of 9, 11, and 13, and to reveal associations between this social behavior and some background variables such as age, gender, and parents' educational attainment. The participants were 185 Hungarian students and their teachers. Two Likert-type questionnaires…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Testing, Child Behavior, Prosocial Behavior
How Do Children Share Information in Groups?
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Gummerum, Michaela; Leman, Patrick J.; Hollins, Tara S. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Group decision making should be particularly beneficial when group members share unique information, because then a group can make a better decision than each group member alone. This study examined how elementary-school children share unique information during group decision making. Seventy-nine groups of 3 same-sex and same-age 7- and 9-year-old…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Sharing Behavior, Elementary School Students, Children