ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2020
With a Little Help from Their Peers: The Impact of Classmates on Adolescents' Development of Prosocial Behavior.
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- Peer factors and prosocial behavior among Chinese adolescents from difficult families.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Psychometric Validation of the Adult Prosocialness Behavior Scale in a Professional Teaching Context.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Prosocial behavior in students with intellectual disabilities: Individual level predictors and the role of the classroom peer context.PloS one · 2023Article
- Anxiety in the Classroom: Only Girls' Anxiety Is Related to Same-Sex Peers' Anxiety.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Peer groups are critical socialization agents for the development of social behavior in adolescence, but studies examining peer-group effects on individuals' prosocial behavior are scarce. Using a two-wave, multilevel data set (N = 16,893, 8481 male; 8412 female; mean age at Time 1: 14.0 years) from 1308 classes in 252 secondary schools in Germany, main effects of the classroom level of prosocial behavior, cross-level interactions between the classroom and the individual levels of prosocial behavior at Time 1, and the moderating role of gender were examined. The results showed that adolescents in classrooms with high collective levels of prosocial behavior at Time 1 reported more prosocial behavior at Time 2, about two years later, reflecting a class-level main effect. A significant cross-level interaction indicated that a high classroom level of prosocial behavior particularly affected individuals with lower levels of prosocial behavior at Time 1. The influence of same-gender peers was larger compared with opposite-gender peers. The findings are discussed with respect to social learning mechanisms in the development of prosocial behavior and their implications for interventions to promote prosocial behavior.
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