ERIC Number: EJ1473383
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Dec
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-1381-2890
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1928
Available Date: 2025-06-02
Linking Self-Transcendence Values to Classroom Prosocial Behavior: The Mediating Role of Teachers' Autonomy Support in Elementary School Students
Yaffa Chen1; Maya Benish-Weisman2; Moti Benita3
Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, v28 n1 Article 118 2025
This longitudinal study explored whether students' self-transcendence values predicted their classroom prosocial behavior through perceived teachers' autonomy support. Participants in this three-wave study were 395 fourth and fifth grade students (52% female, mean age = 9.41 at T1). In fourth grade, students reported their self-transcendence values. Four months into fifth grade, students assessed teachers' autonomy support, and their teachers evaluated students' prosocial behavior. Teachers evaluated prosocial behavior again at the end of fifth grade. Results showed self-transcendence values in fourth grade predicted increases in prosocial behavior in fifth grade through perceptions of teachers' autonomy support. These findings expand knowledge of mechanisms underlying relations between self-transcendence values and classroom prosocial behavior. They suggest students are agents capable of shaping their environment.
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Prosocial Behavior, Classroom Environment, Teacher Student Relationship, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Values, Change Agents
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades; Grade 5; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; 2The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; 3Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Education, Beer-Sheva, Israel