ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2022
Does Self-Control Promote Prosocial Behavior? Evidence from a Longitudinal Tracking Study.
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- Parenting pathways to friendship: how Self-Control and emotion management skills mediate preschoolers' social lives in China?BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The relationship between subjective social class and pro-social behavior: the mediating role of self-control and the dual-edged sword effect of shame.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Implicit intervention approach for empathy: exploring the combined effects of empathic concern and visual perspective-taking.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Effects of physical activity on college students' interpersonal competence: chain-mediated effects of self-control and prosocial interpersonal emotional management.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Roles of self-efficacy and self-control in the association between relative deprivation and psychological well-being among undergraduate students during COVID-19 pandemic.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Although numerous researches have shown that self-control is a significant promoter of prosocial behavior, the mechanism behind this relationship is still unclear. According to the organism-environment interaction model and self-control model, this study researched whether life satisfaction played a mediating role between self-control and adolescents' prosocial behavior and if friendship quality played a moderating role between self-control and prosocial behavior. This study used a longitudinal tracking research (T1&T2; and the interval between T1&T2 is 6 months). A total of 1182 Chinese middle school students participated the survey. They were between 12 and 15 years old (average age: 14.16 years old, SD = 1.29). Results indicated that life satisfaction played a mediating role between self-control and adolescents' prosocial behavior. Furthermore, this direct relationship in the link between self-control and prosocial behavior was significant when adolescents had a good-quality friendship. These results highlight that life satisfaction plays an important role in the relationship between self-control and prosocial behavior. The present study further determined that a high-quality friendship was an important factor that amplified this direct effect.
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