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Zijian Li; Boya Li; Yung-Ting Tsou; Carolien Rieffe – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Empathy plays an important role in children's early social-emotional development. However, there are not many instruments available for measuring the different aspects/levels of empathy in preschool children. Moreover, few studies examined the validity of the existing measures for empathy in Chinese children. The present study…
Descriptors: Empathy, Questionnaires, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
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Cong Liu; Mohd Nazri Abdul Rahman; Afdal Afdal; Muhammad Asyraf Mansor – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Preschoolers' prosocial behaviours support healthy interpersonal relationships as a component of their social adjustment process. Although several studies have found links between parental marital characteristics and preschoolers' prosocial behaviours, these conclusions were divisive. Therefore, a meta-analysis was conducted to clarify the…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Child Behavior, Marital Instability, Effect Size
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Cheyeon Ha; Makana Craig; Alysia D. Roehrig – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2025
This study explored students' prosocial efficacy and reading outcomes in a culturally relevant summer reading program for underrepresented students. From a positive developmental approach, the reading program focuses on topics rooted in multicultural education, with books organized according to themes such as making a difference for oneself, one's…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Prosocial Behavior, Reading Achievement, Summer Programs
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Nalipay, Ma. Jenina N.; King, Ronnel B.; Yeung, Susanna S. S.; Chai, Ching Sing; Jong, Morris Siu-Yung – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: Individuals pursue teaching careers for numerous reasons, such as for instrumental or prosocial purposes. Aims: This study examined the personal (instrumental motivation) and social (prosocial motivation) utility of teaching as predictors of teaching quality in terms of clarity of instruction, classroom management, and cognitive…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation), Motivation, Predictor Variables
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Hermann Astleitner; Jörg Zumbach – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
University professors' collegiality has received far more attention in higher education research than collegiality among higher education students. Hence, this lack of research concerning higher education students' collegiality represents a research gap that this study aims to fill. The present study aimed at examining the contribution of personal…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Personality Traits
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Rachel Plak; Ralph Rippe; Inge Merkelbach; Sander Begeer – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on autistic children's psychosocial outcomes have shown mixed results. In the current study we aimed to gain a better insight into the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic by comparing psychosocial outcomes collected pre-pandemic with data collected during the pandemic. We used the Strengths and…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, COVID-19, Pandemics, Psychological Patterns
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Laible, Deborah; Karahuta, Erin; Stout, Wyntre; Van Norden, Clare; Cruz, Alysia; Neely, Princess; Carlo, Gustavo; Agalar, Afra Elif – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Some work demonstrates toddlers show preferences in targets of their prosocial behavior, and a number of theorists have argued that young children become increasingly likely to direct their prosocial behavior to ingroup over outgroup targets with development. The goal of this study was to examine whether toddlers' early helping, sharing, and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preferences, Empathy, Prosocial Behavior
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Monopoli, W. John; Allan, Darcey M.; Everly, Elise L.; Evans, Steven W.; Mikami, Amori Yee; Owens, Julie Sarno – School Mental Health, 2023
Peer victimization is critical to study in early and middle childhood as it is associated with adjustment and behavioral problems in adolescence. Because much victimization occurs outside of the purview of adults, self-report measures are important assessments of this construct; however, there is limited evidence for the psychometric properties of…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Victims, Questionnaires, Psychometrics
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Wong, Tracy K. Y.; Konishi, Chiaki; Zhang, Melody Y. Q. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
This study examined adolescents' perceived paternal and maternal parenting in relation to different types of prosocial behaviors. Adolescent gender and age were considered as moderators. Participants included 439 Grades 7-11 adolescents (55.13% girls) from five secondary schools in Hong Kong. Path analysis indicated that maternal and paternal…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Personal Autonomy, Prosocial Behavior
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Lulciuc, Claudiu; Minulescu, Mihaela; Maricu?oiu, Lauren?iu – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
The present study evaluated children's prosocial behavior (M = 7.39, SD = 0.93) (i.e., specific altruism) under the influence of three types of cartoons (neutral, prosocial, or antisocial). Subjects (N = 140) were randomized and exposed to treatment with pre- and post-intervention measurements. The results didn't confirm the hypothesis that…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Prosocial Behavior, Altruism, Cartoons
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Lysanne W. Te Brinke; Gamze Er-Vargün; Michaela Gummerum – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
This study assessed the psychometric properties of the Dutch translation of the Prosocial Behavior Questionnaire (PBQ-NL), a self-report questionnaire that distinguishes altruistic, reactive, and proactive prosocial behaviours. Participants were 381 Dutch adolescents and young adults aged 13-30 (M[subscript age] = 18.62, SD = 2.59, 65.1% female).…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Translation, Prosocial Behavior, Questionnaires
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Kaya, Isa – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between children's prosocial behavior and self-regulation skills. To collect the data of the study, demographic information form developed by the researcher was used for the demographic information of children, the prosocial behavior sub-dimension of the social behavior scale was used for the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Prosocial Behavior, Child Behavior, Preschool Children
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Malinauskas, Romualdas K.; Saulius, Tomas – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
In this study, the differences in social self-efficacy and prosocial behaviour between students of high and youth schools were investigated. The random sample consisted of 394 students. Participants comprised 213 male and 181 female students; 198 of them were high school students, and 196 of them were youth school students. A Social Self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Prosocial Behavior, Elementary School Students, Age Differences
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Vardakosta, Eirini; Priniotakis, Georgios; Papoutsidakis, Michail; Sigala, Marisa; Nikolopoulos, Dimitrios – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This paper investigates the viewpoints and perspectives of 179 undergraduate students engaged in a co-creation project regarding their anticipated progress, exploring, simultaneously, the affecting factors. The students attended the physics course in the Department of Industrial Design and Production Engineering at the University of West Attica,…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Student Attitudes, Correlation, Expectation
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Wilson, Travis M.; Jamison, Rhonda – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2019
Peer nominations and teacher ratings were used to examine age and sex differences in behaviors associated with perceived coolness during middle childhood. Participants were 470 students in Grades 1, 3, and 5. Participants nominated peers whom they perceived as cool; separate scores were calculated for samesex coolness and cross-sex coolness (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Age Differences, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students
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