Search results for "Prosocial"

Predictors of changing patterns of adherence to containment measures during the early stage of COVID-19 pandemic: an international longitudinal study

2023

Abstract Background Identifying common factors that affect public adherence to COVID-19 containment measures can directly inform the development of official public health communication strategies. The present international longitudinal study aimed to examine whether prosociality, together with other theoretically derived motivating factors (self-efficacy, perceived susceptibility and severity of COVID-19, perceived social support) predict the change in adherence to COVID-19 containment strategies. Method In wave 1 of data collection, adults from eight geographical regions completed online surveys beginning in April 2020, and wave 2 began in June and ended in September 2020. Hypothesized pre…

L'altruismo tra scienze sociali e vita quotidiana

2011

The Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS)

2006

The Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development is an ongoing long-term study that began in 1968. From the very beginning, data have been collected within a framework of emotional and behavioral regulation. This chapter presents the framework model and its theoretical rationales. Data collection waves are described, first, from childhood to adolescence, and second, in adulthood. Results on continuity in socioemotional behavior and its developmental background, problem behavior and health, and positive development are presented so as not to overlap with results in the other chapters of this book. INTRODUCTION The title of the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Personality…

Adicción al juego: procesos psicológicos y conductas relacionadas

2021

La adicción a los juegos de azar supone uno de los principales problemas de conductas adictivas a nivel mundial. Por ello, es necesario conocer en profundidad cuáles son los procesos psicológicos y las conductas que pueden llevar a desarrollar o a empeorar esta problemática. La presente Tesis Doctoral, presentada en forma de compendio de investigaciones, tiene el objetivo de analizar una serie de factores implicados en los problemas de juego patológico. Estos factores son la medición de los problemas con el juego y una serie de procesos psicológicos y conductuales entre los que se encuentran la depresión, el afrontamiento del estrés, la susceptibilidad al efecto marco y las conductas prosoc…

Evaluation of the effectiveness of drug prevention programs: Analysis of the international scientific production (2002–2011)

2015

s / Drug and Alcohol Dependence 146 (2015) e202–e284 e205 Oxytocin effects on human aggressive responding Joseph L. Alcorn, Nadeeka Dias, N. Rathnayaka, Joy Schmitz, C. Green, Scott D. Lane Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Program in Neuroscience, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center – Houston, Houston, TX, United States Aims: In the search for interventions aimed at improving the social functioning of individuals with substance use disorders (SUD), the neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) and the oxytonergic system may hold promise as an intervention strategy for promoting prosocial behaviors. Acute administration of OT …

Cooperation Between Strangers in Face-to-Face Dyads Produces More Cardiovascular Activation Than Competition or Working Alone

2019

Abstract. Individual and shared goals can be achieved through social interpersonal interaction, cooperation and competition being two different yet similar strategies to reach such aims and objectives. Nevertheless, there is a gap in the literature analyzing the effect of these types of social interactions, especially in cooperation, on autonomic nervous system responses using noninvasive measures, such as heart rate (HR). The regulation of HR and other cardiovascular variables of the central nervous system offers information about how to encourage or discourage social engagement and prosocial behaviors. In fact, a more flexible engagement with the environment and efficient emotions regula…

An investigation of Facebook users' implicit associations between Facebook, sexual and prosocial behavior.

2018

Abstract Despite growing research on online social networking, implicit associations of Facebook users have been largely understudied. In Study 1, we used the Single-Target Implicit Association Test (ST-IAT; Karpinski and Steinman, 2006) in order to assess implicit associations between Facebook and two evolutionary relevant constructs: sexual and prosocial behavior. Additionally, we controlled for the role of participant's relationship status as a potential moderator of Facebook implicit associations. In Study 2, we extended these findings and explored the relationship between implicit and explicit associations towards Facebook. Across two studies, we found that Facebook is more strongly as…

Measuring emotional instability, prosocial behavior and aggression in pre-adolescents: A cross-national study

1997

Abstract Three scales measuring emotional instability, prosocial behavior and aggression were analyzed in a new study involving subjects between the ages of 11 and 15 from three different countries: Italy, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Principal component analysis (PCA), simultaneous component analysis (SCA) and congruence coefficients were used to evaluate and compare the factorial structure of the scales in the three different countries. Results clearly show a substantial equivalence of the components in the three countries, attesting to the generalizability of these measures in different cultural contexts. Country comparisons on the mean level of the scales show that Italian boys and g…

The Emotion Detectives Game: Supporting the Social-emotional Competence of Young Children

2017

The potential of digital games to enhance learning in different areas of child development has drawn increasing interest amid growing concern about children’s emotional well-being, social-emotional difficulties, and problem behaviors alongside diminishing economic resources for intervention and habilitation. However, digital games designed to promote social-emotional competence are surprisingly scarce. In this chapter, we explore children’s use of the digital game Emotion Detectives (ED), designed to promote children’s acquisition of emotional knowledge skills (e.g., recognizing, appreciating, and understanding emotions and their expressions), prosocial behaviors (e.g., helping, sharing, co…

The impact of peer attachment on prosocial behavior, emotional difficulties and conduct problems in adolescence: The mediating role of empathy

2020

Attachment theories postulate that during adolescence, peer relationships become more important as a predictor of positive social, emotional and behavioral outcomes. Adolescents develop the ability to empathize with others, which is related to healthy functioning and positive peer relationships. Empathy has been studied as a potential mechanism that may help to explain how strong and healthy emotional bonds are associated with less emotional disorders and conduct problems in youth. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between peer attachment and strengths and difficulties during adolescence, considering empathy as a potential mediator of this association. A total o…