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The varying roles of parents and the cognitive–emotional variables regarding the different types of adolescent prosocial behavior

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ID7861178
AuthorsBelén Mesurado (0000-0002-5907-5854, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental (CIIPME) – Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones—Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina, corresponding author), María Cristina Richaud (0000-0001-6408-4897, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental (CIIPME) – Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones—Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina), Lucas M Rodríguez (0000-0001-5525-1155, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental (CIIPME) – Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones—Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina)
Year2019
Volume36
Issue7
Pages2116-2133
Publication date2019-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social and Personal Relationships (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0265-4075 • E-ISSN: 1460-3608
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0265407518780365
OpenAlexW2808652015
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited25

This article studies the relationship between parental variables (authoritative parental style, maternal and paternal challenges), empathy, and prosocial flow with different types of prosocial behaviors (prosocial behaviors toward different targets and different motivations of prosocial behavior). The sample included 539 students of both sexes (42.5% males; M age = 19.13 years old, SD = 1.92). The hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that prosocial behaviors toward family, followed by toward friends, are motivated to a much greater extent by the parental variable than by empathy and prosocial flow. Conversely, when the prediction of prosocial behavior toward strangers was analyzed, the variables that had greater weight were prosocial flow and empathy. In relation to prosocial tendencies, the results showed that parental variables, empathy, and prosocial flow explained a similar percentage of variables in the different types of public, responsive, altruist, and anonymous prosocial tendencies

Developmental psychology · Empathy · Helping behavior · Multilevel model · Personal distress · Prosocial behavior · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Media Influence and Health · Psychology · Social Psychology

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