The impact of financial deprivation on prosocial behaviour: Comparing the roles of face‐saving consciousness versus status/success‐gaining intention

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyi Xie ◽  
Bing Shi
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Face Saving ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Financial Deprivation

scholarly journals The impact of perception of consistency and inconsistency in parenting style on pro-social motives of adolescents

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Karmakar
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Style ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Social Motives ◽  
Inconsistent Parenting ◽  
Social Motive ◽  
Parental Authority Questionnaire ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Pro Social Behavior

Adolescence is the most dynamic and eventful period of human development. During this crucial period of life, adolescents encounter challenges in life and constantly adapting to the relationship dynamics with friends, family, school and society. There is tendency of adolescents to engage in antisocial or pro-social behaviour. Adolescents’ relationship with parents and guardian significantly influence their antisocial and prosocial behavior. Pro-social behavior is defined as a behavior that is primarily aimed at benefiting others. Some pro-social behaviour is extrinsically motivated whereas some are intrinsically motivated. The present study investigated the nature of prosocial behaviour among adolescents and impact of consistency and inconsistency of parenting style on prosocial behaviour. A group of 610 adolescents (310 boys and 300 girls) aged between 16—18 years (mean = 17.07 and standard deviation = 1.02) was selected for the present study. Pro-social Motivation Questionnaire and Parental Authority Questionnaire were used to measure pro-social motive and parenting style, respectively. The results indicate that adolescents generally show higher level of intrinsic pro-social motive. Adolescent girls prefer to display internalised and empathetic pro-social motives whereas adolescent boys tend to gain others’ approval by displaying heroic activities. Consistency in parenting style facilitates intrinsic pro-social motive only when both parents are authoritative in nature. The result interestingly reveals that inconsistent parenting style is not always bad. Authoritative and permissive dyad facilitates intrinsic pro-social motive among adolescents. Implications for parental socialisation in families and pro-social motive among adolescents are discussed.

Active Music Making Facilitates Prosocial Behaviour in 18-month-old Children

2019 ◽  
pp. 102986491989230
Author(s):  
Verena Buren ◽  
Franziska Degé ◽  
Gudrun Schwarzer
Keyword(s):  
Social Activity ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Joint Activity ◽  
Joint Book Reading ◽  
Recorded Music ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Musical Activity ◽  
Helping Behaviour ◽  
The Impact

Whenever we celebrate in a group, music and dance are usually part of it. Music making is a highly social activity and even listening to recorded music in a group still gives us a sense of feeling as a unit. Recently, studies have shown that joint music making promotes prosocial feelings and behaviour in children and preschoolers. Active music making led to more prosocial behaviour than a similar non-musical activity. Until now, however, the impact of joint active music making on prosociality has not been studied in infants. Only the effect of passive bouncing to the beat has been studied so far. Therefore, in the current study we investigated whether the joint activity of music making in a natural multimodal way can evoke prosocial behaviour in infants. In our study, 50 18-month-olds were randomly assigned to one of three groups: active music, passive music or non-musical activity (joint book reading). Afterwards, we measured helping behaviour towards the experimenter. We found that joint music making led to more helping behaviour than listening to music or joint book reading, indicating that the prosocial effect of joint music making arises even in 18-month-olds.

scholarly journals Uncertainty about the impact of social decisions increases prosocial behaviour

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 573-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Kappes ◽  
Anne-Marie Nussberger ◽  
Nadira S. Faber ◽  
Guy Kahane ◽  
Julian Savulescu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Social Decisions ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Social norms and cultural diversity in the development of third-party punishment

2020 ◽  
Vol 287 (1925) ◽  
pp. 20192794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bailey R. House ◽  
Patricia Kanngiesser ◽  
H. Clark Barrett ◽  
Süheyla Yilmaz ◽  
Andrew Marcus Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Local Norms ◽  
The Impact

Human cooperation is probably supported by our tendency to punish selfishness in others. Social norms play an important role in motivating third-party punishment (TPP), and also in explaining societal differences in prosocial behaviour. However, there has been little work directly linking social norms to the development of TPP across societies. In this study, we explored the impact of normative information on the development of TPP in 603 children aged 4–14, across six diverse societies. Children began to perform TPP during middle childhood, and the developmental trajectories of this behaviour were similar across societies. We also found that social norms began to influence the likelihood of performing TPP during middle childhood in some of these societies. Norms specifying the punishment of selfishness were generally more influential than norms specifying the punishment of prosocial behaviour. These findings support the view that TPP of selfishness is important in all societies, and its development is shaped by a shared psychology for responding to normative information. Yet, the results also highlight the important role that children's prior knowledge of local norms may play in explaining societal variation in the development of both TPP and prosociality.

The impact of goals and public rewards on a prosocial behaviour: an exploratory economic experiment

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Farrow ◽  
S. Costa ◽  
G. Grolleau ◽  
L. Ibanez
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Economic Experiment ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Selected Determinants of Children’s Helpfulness at the Early School Age on the Basis of Selected Schools in Myslenice County (Poland)

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-167
Author(s):  
Monika Bajak
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Clear Correlation ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
School Age ◽  
Early School ◽  
The Family ◽  
Early School Age ◽  
The Impact

Prosocial behaviour is not constant, it is continually being developed and enriched. It is developed most effectively through social activities and community involvement, but most of all through the participation in the family life. A child becomes a social being through social development. All these social and communal experiences determine children’s willingness to deal and help other people. The aim of this article is to examine a particular type of children’s social behaviour, which is helpfulness. There exists a clear correlation between the structure of the family and the helpfulness of the children which was partially confirmed by the author. There is also an average statistic relationship between the families’ fertility and helpfulness. The author of the paper represents the impact of age peculiarities of a child on his/her social development

scholarly journals Positive and Negative Affect: Impact on Empathy and Prosocial Behaviour among College Going Adolescents

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Parul Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
College Going ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

The positive affect means the different level of moods of an individual on subjective basis such as joy, interest and being alert. It refers to the condition where the individual have positive emotions and feelings involving physiological arousal, thinking process and behaviour. Positive affect also involving the interaction of an individual with the environment and its surroundings. The people shows the characteristics of being full of energy, active, are generally high on positive affect and characteristics like sad, lethargic, stress are examples of the negative affect. Empathy refers to the different kind of experiences. The researchers have defined empathy as ability of a person to feel other’s emotions including the feeling and thinking. Therefore it includes an experience that involves understanding others conditions or emotions from their perspective. Empathy increases the prosocial behaviour. The prosocial behaviour means actions which are positive in nature but does benefit others and it includes the moral values, sense of responsibility and does not have any personal gains from such behaviour. It is a kind of voluntary actions that benefits not only the individual itself but also the society as a whole. The aim of the current investigation was to study the impact of positive and negative affect on empathy and prosocial behaviour. For this study, Positive and negative affect scale (PANAS; Watson et al., 1988), Empathy scale (Levine et al., 2009), and Prosocial Tendencies Measure scale (Randall et al., 2003) were administered to the sample of 100 students in the age range of 18-21 years. The sample was taken from different colleges of Chandigarh. An inter-correlation matrix was calculated to see the relationship. The results have shown significant and positive relationship between positive affect, empathy and prosocial behavior. The correlation between positive and empathy is (r = 0.33) and positive affect and prosocial behavior is (r = 0.30). The significant and negative relationship is found between negative affect, empathy and prosocial behavior. The correlation between negative affect and empathy is(r = -0.29) and negative affect and prosocial behavior is (r = -0.27). The result is found to be significant at 0.01 levels.

scholarly journals Association of parental social network diversity with behaviour problems and resilience of offspring in a large population-based study of Japanese children

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. e035100
Author(s):  
Yuna Koyama ◽  
Takeo Fujiwara ◽  
Aya Isumi ◽  
Satomi Doi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Behaviour Problems ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Inverse Association ◽  
Network Diversity ◽  
Behaviour Score ◽  
The Impact

ObjectivesThe current study aimed to elucidate the impact of parental social network diversity on the behaviour problems and resilience of offspring.DesignWe used cross-sectional data from the Kochi Child Health Impact of Living Difficulty study in 2016.Setting and participantsParticipants were first, fifth and eighth grade children living in Kochi prefecture, Japan (N=9653). We calculated parental social network diversity by counting the number of people with whom parents connected on a daily basis (ie, structural social network diversity) and by assessing perceived psychosocial support (ie, functional social network diversity).Primary outcome measuresChild behaviour problems and resilience were respectively assessed using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and the Child’s Resilient Coping Scale (CRCS), as rated by caregivers.ResultsDiversity in parental structural and functional social networks showed an inverse association with SDQ total difficulties score (B=−0.16 (95% CI −0.25 to −0.07) and −0.20 (95% CI −0.27 to −0.13), respectively), and a positive association with prosocial behaviour score (B=0.11 (95% CI 0.08 to 0.15) and 0.09 (95% CI 0.06 to 0.12), respectively) and CRCS score (B=0.75 (95% CI 0.46 to 1.05) and 1.12 (95% CI 0.88 to 1.35), respectively) in the adjusted model. Parental mental health accounted for 36% and 43% of the total effects of structural and functional social network diversity respectively on the total difficulties score. For prosocial behaviour score, parental involvement accounted for 31% of the effects of functional social network diversity.ConclusionThe results shed light on new strategies to enhance child mental health that do not directly involve children but rather focus on parental social networking.

scholarly journals Intuitive decision-making promotes rewarding prosocial others independent of the personality trait Honesty-Humility

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laila Nockur ◽  
Stefan Pfattheicher
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Personality Trait ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Intuitive Decision Making ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Although past research has convincingly shown that rewarding prosocial individuals helps to establish high levels of cooperation, research investigating factors that promote rewarding others has been surprisingly rare. The present research addresses this gap and examines two factors that were shown in past research to play a role in prosocial behaviour. In a well-powered study (total N = 1003), we tested the impact of (a) a basic prosocial personality trait (the Honesty-Humility dimension from the HEXACO personality model) and (b) intuitive decision-making, as well as (c) their interaction, in rewarding prosocial individuals. We found that (1) intuition promotes rewarding prosocial others; (2) Honesty-Humility was not significantly related to rewarding prosocial others; and (3) that Honesty-Humility did not significantly moderate the effect of intuition on reward. Implications for the understanding of reciprocating others’ prosocial behaviour are discussed.

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