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Direct linkKeng-Hie Song; Ju-Hyun Song; Tina Malti – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
This study investigated the relationship between traumatic life stress, trust, and prosocial behavior as a positive mental health outcome in Syrian refugee children in Canada. Trust is a resilience factor shown to promote adjustment after resettlement. The specific goals of the study were to test the influence of refugee children's traumatic life…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Experience, Trauma, Trust (Psychology)
Rui Li; Zong Meng; Yueqin Hu – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
Childhood is a critical period for the development of prosocial behavior, and the family serves as a crucial microsystem for fostering prosocial behavior in children. Prior research has indicated that parental monitoring, a specific family factor directly targeting children, can predict children's prosocial behavior. However, the influence of the…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Children, Family Influence, Behavior Development
Germano Vera Cruz; Lonzozou Kpanake; Guadalupe Elizabeth Morales-Martínez; Etienne Mullet – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
Few studies on the development of forgiveness involved young children and adolescents, and very few involved samples from non-western countries. This study focused on the development of willingness to forgive a particular transgression in participants aged 4 to 12 years and from two different cultures: a South African culture (Mozambique) and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Young Children, Conflict Resolution
Badenes-Ribera, Laura; Duro-García, Carmen; López-Ibáñez, Carmen; Martí-Vilar, Manuel; Sánchez-Meca, Julio – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
The Adult Prosocialness Behavior Scale (APBS) is most often used to measure adult prosociality. We conducted a reliability generalization meta-analysis to compute the average APBS reliability and examine the heterogeneity among reliability estimations and the influence of moderator variables. An exhaustive search identified 74 articles that…
Descriptors: Adults, Prosocial Behavior, Behavior Rating Scales, Test Reliability
Rum, Yonat; Zachor, Ditza A.; Dromi, Esther – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
This observational study focuses on prosocial behaviors of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) during an interaction with their older, typically developing sibling (TD-Sibs). Twenty-eight sibling dyads, in which the younger sibling was diagnosed with ASD (ASD-Sibs), were video-recorded at home playing a game of their choice. Video…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Sibling Relationship
Ioannis Katsantonis; Ros McLellan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
This study examined the association between internalizing and externalizing mental health and prosociality across four developmental transitions. The effects of parent-child interactions on mental health and prosociality were also explored. The data from a community sample of 10,703 children on mental health, prosociality, child maltreatment,…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mental Health, Prosocial Behavior, Socioeconomic Status
Padilla-Walker, Laura M.; Van der Graaff, Jolien; Workman, Katey; Carlo, Gustavo; Branje, Susan; Carrizales, Alexia; Gerbino, Maria; Gülseven, Zehra; Hawk, Skyler T.; Luengo Kanacri, Paula; Mesurado, Belén; Samper-García, Paula; Shen, Yuh-Ling; Taylor, Laura K.; Trach, Jessica; van Zalk, Maarten H. W.; Žukauskiene, Rita – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Evidence suggests an impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, particularly among emerging adults. However, theories on altruism born of suffering or adversarial growth suggest that we might also see prosocial behavior as a function of the pandemic, which may protect against mental health challenges. Because cultural values are central in…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Mental Health, Prosocial Behavior, Cultural Influences
Garandeau, Claire F.; Vermande, Marjolijn M.; Reijntjes, Albert H. A.; Aarts, Emmeke – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Defending a victimized peer is a socially risky behavior that may require high peer status and may depend on how popular or disliked bullies are in the classroom (i.e., within-classroom correlations between bullying and status). Past research has investigated defending as a unidimensional construct, though it can involve confronting the bully…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Victims, Classroom Environment
Mengjiao Wang; Xi Chen; Shanyun Zheng – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
According to the heuristic model of emotion socialization by Eisenberg et al., parental reactions to children's negative emotions (RCNE) have an important role in this socialization process; however, its effects on children's social-emotional outcomes may be moderated by the children's temperament. This longitudinal study verified this proposition…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Child Behavior, Emotional Response, Behavior Problems
Rambaran, J. Ashwin; van Duijn, Marijtje A. J.; Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis; Veenstra, René – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
This study investigates the extent to which defending victims of bullying depends on liking and disliking and its relation with the classroom bullying norm (descriptive and popularity) in a sample of 1,272 students (50.8% boys) in 48 fifth-grade classrooms. Social network analysis with bivariate exponential random graph modelings showed that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Bullying
Peplak, Joanna; Jambon, Marc; Bottoni, Alyssa; Malti, Tina – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
We examined Canadian host-society children's prosociality (i.e., emotions and behaviors that reflect care for the welfare of others) toward refugee newcomer peers and the role of parental socialization (i.e., frequency of parent-child conversations about refugee newcomers) in children's refugee-specific prosociality. The sample included 168…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prosocial Behavior, Refugees, Peer Relationship
Kim, Jingu; Cillessen, Antonius H. N. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
The goal of this study was to examine the prospective associations of prosocial behavior and aggression with social preference in classrooms and whether these associations were moderated by classroom levels of peer-perceived liking and disliking by the teacher. Participants were 2900 fourth-to sixth-grade students in South Korea (M[subscript age]…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, Preferences, Grade 4
Luhao Wei; Mengqian Shen; Urip Purwono; Doran C. French – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
Three-year longitudinal and concurrent associations of leadership with overt aggression, exclusion of others, effortful control (EC), popularity, unpopularity, prosocial behavior, and academic achievement were assessed in this study of Indonesian adolescents. Participants were initially assessed in the 10th grade (n = 462, 256 girls; M[subscript…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Grade 10, Peer Acceptance
Davis, Alexandra N.; McGinley, Meredith; Carlo, Gustavo; Schwartz, Seth J.; Unger, Jennifer B.; Rosiers, Sabrina E. Des; Baezconde-Garbanati, Lourdes; Lorenzo-Blanco, Elma I.; Soto, Daniel – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
The current study was designed to address gaps in the existing literature by examining the role of discrimination and familism values as predictors of multiple forms of prosocial behaviors across time in a sample of recent immigrant Latino/a adolescents. Participants were 302 recent immigrant Latino/a adolescents (53.3% male; average age 14.51…
Descriptors: Social Discrimination, Social Values, Prosocial Behavior, Altruism
Wang, Ying; Hawk, Skyler T.; Wong, Natalie; Zhang, Yan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
Narcissistic youth use social media to engage in a variety of self-promotional behaviors, which have either antisocial or prosocial characteristics. Differing views exist to explain the processes underlying narcissistic self-promotion, either characterizing these actions as intentional, or as impulsive. This study compared intentional…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Prosocial Behavior, Social Media, Bullying
