Search results for "Prosocial"

The Role of Guilt and Empathy on Prosocial Behavior.

2022

Research on the effects of guilt on interpersonal relationships has shown that guilt frequently motivates prosocial behavior in dyadic social situations. When multiple persons are involved, however, this emotion can be disadvantageous for other people in the social environment. Two experiments were carried out to examine the effect of guilt and empathy on prosocial behavior in a context in which more than two people are involved. Experiment 1 investigates whether, in three-person situations, guilt motivates prosocial behavior with beneficial effects for the victim of one’s actions but disadvantageous effects for the third individual. Participants were faced with a social dilemma in wh…

Maternal inconsistent socialization: An interactional pattern with maltreated children

1995

Most child abuse episodes take place in the context of child-rearing conflicts. Parents show a lack of competence in appropriately solving these conflicts, producing an escalating phenomenon which eventually ends in verbal and/or physical aggression towards the child. The main purpose of this study is to test the role of inconsistent socialization in the development of prolonged dyadic coercive exchanges. Observational information from 15 mother-child dyads referred for psychological treatment for abuse and 15 non-clinical dyads was obtained at home. Results show the mother's indiscriminate attention following prosocial child behaviour was significantly higher in abusive dyads, while disrup…

Temperamento y crianza en la construcción de la personalidad. conducta agresiva, inestabilidad y prosociabilidad [Effect of temperament and upbringin…

2004

Resumen La investigacion realizada persigue un doble objetivo. El primero se dirige a estudiar la relacion que se establece entre la estructura de la personalidad del adolescente y la manifestacion de la agresion, de la inestabilidad emocional y de la conducta prosocial. El segundo objetivo pretende analizar del peso que muestran los habitos de crianza en la emision de las conductas agresivas, inestables y prosociales. La muestra esta constituida por 531 adolescentes, chicos y chicas de edades comprendidas entre los 12 y los 16 anos, escolarizados en Centros Publicos y Concertados, que cursan la Etapa Educativa de la Educacion Secundaria Obligatoria. En atencion al procedimiento aleatorio, …

Gender differences in internet addiction: A study on variables related to its possible development

2023

Internet addiction and its related variables (i.e., internet gaming addiction, social media addiction, fear of missing out, phubbing) have mostly been investigated in the general population without considering possible gender differences. The present study aimed to investigate the specific characteristics of men and women in the possible development of pathological behaviors related to internet addiction. A total of 276 participants (of ages ranging from 18 to 30 years old) were recruited in the study (46.7% were males) and responded to online questionnaires on variables related to internet addiction and psychological traits. The results showed that gender represents a key factor in explain…

How perceived persuasive intent and reactance contribute to third-person perceptions: evidence from two experiments

2016

In two experiments, this study presents a process model that explains third-person perceptions (TPP) as a function of perceived persuasive intent and reactance. Using two nonstudent samples, findings were internally replicated for two topics. The study shows that media messages evoking perceptions of persuasive intent also activate reactance, which in turn predicts TPP topic-independently. Remarkably, half of the total stimulus effect on TPP could be explained through reactance, which offers new implications for existing theoretical explanations of strong TPP after undesirable messages but weak effects after, for example, prosocial messages.

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…

Does Sedentary Behavior Predict Academic Performance in Adolescents or the Other Way Round? A Longitudinal Path Analysis.

2016

This study examined whether adolescents’ time spent on sedentary behaviors (academic, technological-based and social-based activities) was a better predictor of academic performance than the reverse. A cohort of 755 adolescents participated in a three-year period study. Structural Equation Modeling techniques were used to test plausible causal hypotheses. Four competing models were analyzed to determine which model best fitted the data. The Best Model was separately tested by gender. The Best Model showed that academic performance was a better predictor of sedentary behaviors than the other way round. It also indicated that students who obtained excellent academic results were more likely t…

Pensamiento Sociomoral y Conducta Prosocial (2010/2011)

2010

Conductes prosocials i responsabilitat social universitària: a la recerca d’un cercle virtuós?

2019

espanolAnte un contexto social con dificultades asociadas a altos indicadores de violencia, se efectua una revision bibliografica de articulos publicados hasta el ano 2017, con las palabras clave conducta prosocial, programas de intervencion y responsabilidad social a fin de reflexionar respecto de la relacion entre el desarrollo de conductas prosociales y la responsabililidad dad social universitaria (RSU). Lo anterior ha permitido plantear la posibilidad de circulos virtuosos que junto con favorecer la prosocialidad en futuros universitarios, propicie que adultos formados en rsu favorezcan contextos de desarrollo prosociales para futuras generaciones. catalaDavant d’un context social amb …

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…