2019
DOI: 10.1111/sode.12357
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Affiliation motivates children’s prosocial behaviors: Relating helping and comforting to imitation

Abstract: The current study focuses on the motivation that drives children's prosocial behavior by analyzing the association between prosocial behavior and children's imitative tendencies, which is a well‐established indicator of the motivation to affiliate with others. Therefore, we tested 30‐month‐old children (N = 59) in an imitation task and two domains of prosocial behavior, namely helping and comforting. Using a confirmatory factor analysis, we demonstrated that the two prosocial domains were explained by a common… Show more

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“…On this view, individual variability in infants' social motivations or the pleasure they derive from social interaction may explain both infants' early social‐cognitive capacities and their subsequent prosocial behavior. This sort of explanation fits with proposals suggesting that early prosocial behavior is driven by the desire for social interaction and affiliation (e.g Carpendale et al, 2015; Dahl & Paulus, 2019; Giner Torréns & Kärtner, 2018), and may be particularly likely to explain our findings involving initiating joint attention.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 89%
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“…On this view, individual variability in infants' social motivations or the pleasure they derive from social interaction may explain both infants' early social‐cognitive capacities and their subsequent prosocial behavior. This sort of explanation fits with proposals suggesting that early prosocial behavior is driven by the desire for social interaction and affiliation (e.g Carpendale et al, 2015; Dahl & Paulus, 2019; Giner Torréns & Kärtner, 2018), and may be particularly likely to explain our findings involving initiating joint attention.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 89%
“…Self‐other differentiation mapped onto 15‐month‐olds' cooperative behavior, but not their instrumental helping or sharing (Kärtner et al, 2014). Finally, 30‐month‐olds' imitative behaviors predicted both their instrumental helping and comforting (Giner Torréns & Kärtner, 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some scholars claim that children's generous behaviour is motivated in large part by their desire for positive social interactions or affiliation with others (Carpendale et al, 2015; Paulus & Moore, 2012; Waugh et al, 2015), as social connection and belonging are critical to well‐being, particularly in early development (Over, 2016). Giner Torréns and Kärtner (2019) propose that that children's early developing social motivations can promote or even generate children's prosocial motivations. In other words, children's desire to engage in generous behaviour may develop out of their initial desire to engage in social behaviour.…”
Section: Potential Influence Of Mutual Identification Contextsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Perhaps socialization experiences that provide modeling of concern for others and support in regulating negative affect are involved (Davidov & Grusec, 2006). Another possibility is the rising group’s sociability or affiliative motivation (Giner Torréns & Kärtner, 2019; Over & Carpenter, 2009). Children in the rising group may have a high need to affiliate and maintain positive social contact, which can foster concern for others, understanding of others’ emotions, and positive peer relations (Peltola, Yrttiaho, & Leppänen, 2018; Volbrecht, Lemery‐Chalfant, Aksan, Zahn‐Waxler, & Goldsmith, 2007).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%