The associations between young adults’ face-to-face prosocial behaviors and their online prosocial behaviors

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 1959-1962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle F. Wright ◽  
Yan Li
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Face To Face

Young Adults’ Contextualization of Environmental and Sustainability Issues: A Critical Issue for Environmental Education Intervention

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony KOLA-OLUSANYA
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

As soon as decision makers are expected to make differences towards sustainable future, young adults’ ability to make informed and sound decisions is considered essential towards securing our planet. This study provides an insight into young adults’ knowledge of key environment and sustainability issues. To answer the key research questions, data were obtained using a qualitative phenomenographic research approach and collected through 18 face-to-face in-depth interviews with research participants. The findings of this study suggest that young adults lived experiences that play a huge role in their level of awareness of topical environmental and sustainability issues critical to humanity’s future on earth. 

Parents' Perceptions of Postschool Years for Young Adults With Developmental Disabilities

2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Bianco ◽  
Dorothy F. Garrison-Wade ◽  
Romie Tobin ◽  
Jean P. Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Service Agencies ◽  
Adults With Developmental Disabilities

Abstract This qualitative study investigated parents' perceptions of the various roles they played in their adult children's lives during the post–high school years. Individual face-to-face interviews were conducted with 9 families of young adults with developmental disabilities. Findings indicated that families perceived the complexity of their roles as balancing between advocating for their adult children's needs while promoting independence and self-determination. The roles parents assumed as their children entered into adult life were those of collaborators, decision makers, and program evaluators, role models, trainers, mentors and instructors, and systems change agents. Parents often felt they were the safety net for their children and the back-up plan for service agencies. Parents' quotes illustrated the complexity of the roles they played as their young adult children with developmental disabilities entered adulthood.

Family support and prosocial behaviors in U. S. Mexican and European American young adults : the intervening roles of respect and sociocognitive/emotive traits

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Cara Streit
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
European American ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Sibling Support ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
American Young Adults

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The primary aim of this study is to consider mothers, fathers, and siblings as socialization agents of young adult's prosocial behaviors and to consider the mediating roles of cultural values and sociocognitive/emotive traits. In order to build on previous work, these relations are examined in a sample of European American and U.S. Latino young adults. The final sample included 184 U.S. Latino (N = 143, 78.6 % female; M age = 20.68, SD =2.05) and 348 European American young adults (N = 275, 79.5 % female; M age = 19.52, SD =1.11). Results from path analyses demonstrate complex and differential predictors associated with prosocial behaviors, as distinguished by the target of helping. Cultural values and young adults' sociocognitive and emotive traits largely served as underlying mechanisms in the relations between family support and prosocial behaviors, although these relations were differentiated by the target of helping. There was also evidence for the moderating role of young adults' gender in the model assessing prosocial behaviors toward family members, such that for men, there were several indirect and direct effects of paternal support (but not maternal or sibling support) in fostering prosocial behaviors toward family members. Discussion will focus on the integration of socialization, cognitive developmental, and cultural theories in predicting prosocial behaviors towards different helping targets.

scholarly journals Health literacy promotion among young adults: a web-based intervention in German vocational schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerrit Stassen ◽  
Christopher Grieben ◽  
Odile Sauzet ◽  
Ingo Frob�se ◽  
Andrea Schaller
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Vocational Schools ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Educational Settings ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Societal Relevance

Abstract Against the background of an ageing population, the target group of young adults holds strong societal relevance as the future workforce. At the same time, young adults find themselves in a critical phase of life regarding the manifestation of a healthy lifestyle. In this context, young adults’ health literacy gains importance. Web-based interventions implemented in educational settings offer the potential for promoting health literacy, although longitudinal studies remain scarce. Within a pre–post cluster randomized controlled trial with 6-month follow-up, this study investigated whether an 8-week web-based intervention in vocational schools (with or without an additional initial face-to-face measure) improves individual competencies within a structural model of health literacy (‘self-perception’, ‘proactive approach to health’, ‘dealing with health information’, ‘self-control’, ‘self-regulation’ and ‘communication and cooperation’). The control condition was regular school lessons following the curriculum only. A multi-level regression analysis was performed using the control group as reference. None of the interventions showed a significant improvement in any of the dimensions. Significant differences between the intervention and control were obtained for some dimensions, albeit showing reductions. Future research must examine how to build impactful health literacy promotion in educational settings. Investigations into linking digital and face-to-face measures should continue.

Halfway to My Request Is Not Halfway to My Heart: Underestimating Appreciation for Partial Help

2020 ◽  
pp. 014616722097527
Author(s):  
Yilu Wang ◽  
Xiaofei Xie
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Face To Face

When being asked for help, people sometimes can only offer part of what is requested (i.e., partial help). The present research investigates whether helpers can accurately forecast how much help-seekers appreciate this understudied form of assistance. From multiple helping scenarios and a face-to-face interaction, we demonstrate an asymmetry in helpers’ and help-seeker’s appraisals of partial help: Helpers anticipated less appreciation for partial help than help-seekers felt in receiving it. This asymmetry arose from helpers’ greater valuation of helping outcomes over intentions to be helpful than help-seekers’. Accordingly, when helpers’ intentions were discounted, this asymmetry no longer persisted. Another account—helpers feel worse for breaking norms of helping than help-seekers—was not supported. We discuss several directions for future research on the psychology of partial prosocial behaviors.

Ethnic-Racial and Religious Identity as Mediators of Relations Between Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Prosocial Behaviors Among Black Young Adults

2020 ◽  
pp. 009579842097138
Author(s):  
Sahitya Maiya ◽  
Gustavo Carlo ◽  
Antoinette M. Landor ◽  
Madison K. Memmott-Elison
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Racial Socialization ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Cultural Socialization ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Prosocial Development ◽  
Identity Processes

Scholars have long asserted the importance of studying cultural socialization processes predicting prosocial behaviors, but studies on this topic among Black young adults are rare. The current study examined the mediating roles of ethnic-racial identity and religious identity in associations between ethnic-racial socialization and prosocial behaviors among Black young adults. Participants consisted of 208 Black young adults ( Mage = 19.90 years, SDage = 1.62, 73.6% women) from universities across the United States, who reported on their ethnic-racial socialization, ethnic-racial identity, religious identity, and prosocial behaviors. Mediation analyses showed that ethnic-racial identity and religious identity mediated the relation between ethnic-racial socialization and prosocial behavior. Our findings highlight the ways in which cultural socialization and identity processes foster prosocial behaviors among Black young adults. Discussion focuses on a culturally grounded and strengths-based understanding of prosocial development among Black young adults.

Are Young Adults Talking about Their Family Health History? A Qualitative Investigation

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Xu ◽  
Wura Jacobs ◽  
Mary Odum ◽  
Caitlin Melton ◽  
Lindsey Holland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Family Health History ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Health History ◽  
Culturally Tailored ◽  
Proactive Care

Family Health History (FHH) plays an essential role in risk assessment for a variety of hereditaryconditions. However, little is known about how young adults communicate with their family membersabout FHH. We conducted face-to-face, semi-structured interviews with 30 college students to gatherinformation about their FHH communications with family members. Our sample was diverse and halfof our participants were international young adults. Our findings indicated that none of the intervieweeshad initiated conversations about their FHH. Our findings highlight the need to provide culturally-tailored educational programs for young adults on the importance of collecting FHH for proactive care.

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