This study examined the question how feelings mediate cooperative support in temporary work units, i.e. project groups. Tests and questionnaires were administered on three occasions during projects. Data were gathered from 150 undergraduate students who ...
Zivilcourage and Helping Behavior: The Impact of Negative Social Consequences on the Perception of Prosocial BehaviorAbstract: In the present cross-cultural study, the mental representations of civil courage and helping behavior are compared. It is ...
Modern thinking about human nature is notoriously divided between two contradictory notions: The Hobbesian tradition portrays men as driven by selfish desires, while the Rousseauian tradition recognizes altruistic proclivities as true motivations to ...
“Tit for Tat?” The development of prosocial behavior and its relationship to externalizing and internalizing problemsAbstract. Supporting other human beings is a fundamental aspect of human societies. Such so-...
Leisure activities, resilience and mental stress in adolescentsAbstract.Objective: To date, the factors contributing to emergence of resilience in different stages of adolescence have yet to be sufficiently ...
Zusammenfassung. Gegenstand ist die Konstruktion und Validierung eines deutschsprachigen Fragebogens zur Erfassung des Konstrukts Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB). OCB bezeichnet ...
Zusammenfassung. Die vorliegende Studie befaßt sich mit der Frage nach dem Zusammenhang zwischen mütterlicher Feinfühligkeit und der Entwicklung von Mitgefühl (Empathie) sowie prosozialem Verhalten und geht von der Bindungstheorie aus. Insgesamt wurden 46 ...
Zusammenfassung. In einer experimentellen Studie wurde der Einfluß von Priming auf Hilfeverhalten untersucht. Mit einer Satzkonstruktionsaufgabe wurde in einer Gruppe das Konzept Altruismus, in einer anderen das Konzept Egoismus und in einer dritten ...
Recognising a victim in need: The effect of situational cues and priming on the identification of need for helpAbstract. An experimental study investigated the joint influence of priming and situational cues on the perceived neediness of a target. A ...
German version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (T4-16 - SDQ): Psychometric quality of the teacher version for preschoolersAbstract. Findings concerning the psychometric quality of the German version of the teacher-SDQ (T4-16 - SDQ) are ...
The Munich Civil Courage Instrument (MüZI): Development and ValidationAbstract. Civil courage and helping behavior represent subtypes of prosocial behavior. Whereas civil courage is associated with high negative social consequences, helping behavior is ...
German Adaption of the Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior in Sport Scale (PABSS) – Assessment of Construct Validity and Measurement Invariance Via Exploratory Structural Equation ModelsAbstract. In this study (N = 759), the German version of the Prosocial ...
Sensitivity to injusticeAbstract. Individuals differ in their sensitivity to injustice. These differences are stable across time and generalize across a wide range of cases of injustice. Justice sensitivity composes of four facets: victim sensitivity, ...
Dieser Beitrag untersucht Einflüsse inner- und außerfamiliärer Beziehungen auf das prosoziale Verhalten von Heranwachsenden aus sozialisationstheoretischer Perspektive. Aufgrund der sich ändernden Qualität familiärer Beziehungen im Zuge des Aufwachsens ...
The Influence of Past and Present Experiences With Peer Relations in School on Perceived Social SupportAbstract. In this article we focus on the question of how peer-group experiences at school influence overall perceived support in the social context. ...
Abstract: The current study examined the association between adolescents’ social goal orientations (i. e., what they want to achieve or avoid in social interactions with their peers) and their externalizing and prosocial ...
Promoting social-emotional competence in preschool: Evaluation of a preventive behavioral training programThis paper reports results of an evaluation study on effectiveness of a social-emotional competence training. Preschool children (n = 127) took part ...
Adolescents With Social Competence Deficits: Effectiveness of the JobFit TrainingThe JobFit Training, a universal prevention program for adolescents, aims to prevent developmental deviation at the time of transition from school to profession. The present ...
Emotion Regulation Strategies in Preschool ChildrenAbstract. A wide range of emotion regulation strategies is considered a good resource to successfully address developmental challenges and possible critical life events. In the present study, important ...
The Role of Interparental Communication for Parenting and Adolescent Mental Well-Being in Conflict Situations. A Mediator AnalysisAbstract:Theoretical background: Parental conflicts are related to children’s mental health. So far, it ...
This research studies the effects of a friendly and cooperative game-program on child socio-affective relations and group cooperation capacity, between ages 6 and 7. For this purpose 125 experimental subjects were compared with 53 control subjects, using ...
Personality research has mainly relied on self-report measures, more than on behavioral assessments. In the present study, brief behavioral personality tests were developed to measure behavior that is prototypical for the Big Five traits of ...
The present research reveals that people's implicit theories of civil courage and helping behavior are clearly distinguishable. In three studies, it was shown that situations requiring civil courage rather than helping assistance were perceived more ...
Abstract. Prosocial behavior is intended to benefit others rather than oneself and is positively linked to personality traits such as Agreeableness and Honesty-Humility, and usually negatively to the Dark Triad traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, ...
Abstract. The bystander effect reveals that people are less likely to help a person in need when others are present. We examined the impact of priming the concept of responsibility on the bystander effect in a field ...
Abstract. As an entertainment technology, video games are a popular social activity that can allow for multiple players to cooperatively engage on-screen challenges. Emerging research has found that when people play together, the resulting ...
Abstract. Interactive narratives offer interesting opportunities for the study of the impact of media on behavior. A growing amount of research on games advocating social change, including those focusing on interactive narratives, has ...
Abstract. Crowdfunding enables fundraising of various ventures by collecting money from several donors. We argue that the inclusion of prosocial language contributes to success in this new domain of resource acquisition. In Study 1, we ...
Abstract. Previous research has shown that people of low subjective socioeconomic status (SES) are more likely to experience compassion and provide help to others than people of high SES. However, low subjective SES also appears to be ...
Abstract. Prior research has reported less favorable attitudes toward and more violent crimes against ethnic out-group members in East (vs. West) Germany. We conducted two pre-registered lost letter studies in West versus East German ...
Abstract. The questions of whether high-income individuals are more prosocial than low-income individuals and whether income inequality moderates this effect have received extensive attention. We shed new light on this topic by analyzing a ...
Abstract. Interpersonal research has shown that guilt motivates perpetrators to compensate victims at the expense of a third party, indicating that the emotion’s goal involves reparative outcomes rather than ...
Abstract. The current study focuses on a sample of low- to middle-income school-age Latina girls and their parents and examines how children’s distress proneness interacts with parental empathic accuracy ...
Abstract. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented social distancing rules (including mass school closures) dramatically constrained children’s social lives, jeopardizing human connections that ...
Abstract. Prior work suggests that parenting daughters makes the preferences of men more in line with those of women. We use behavior in a dictator game as a measure of pure social preferences to test whether ...
Abstract. The aim of our study was to test the effectiveness of the prosocial goals intervention in adolescents. We tested its effects on prosocial behavior as assessed by the decomposed game (DG) and the Efforts ...
Abstract: The present study adapts and investigates the psychometric properties of the German version of the Prosocial Behavioral Intentions Scale (PBIS). The sample included 507 participants. Incongruent with the original study, the PBIS showed low ...
Abstract. Altruistic behavior is a subset of prosocial behavior, aimed at intentionally benefitting another while incurring a cost to the actor. It develops throughout childhood as underlying social–emotional and ...