The developmental cascades of prosocial behavior tendency, internalizing and externalizing problems for early adolescence in China: A within-person analysis

DUAN, Wenting; Sun, Qiwu; Wang, Ming; Wu, Caizhi; CHEN, Zhenzhen

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1041.2022.00813

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“…A lot of evidence shows that prosocial behavior is positively related to personal characteristics, including empathy, internalized moral reasoning, social anxiety, sympathy, collaboration, self-efficacy, and emotional regulation [ 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 ]. Self-efficacy is the perception of one’s capability to organize and execute required courses of action to achieve particular outcomes [ 26 ].…”

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Understanding the Relationship between Parental Psychological Control and Prosocial Behavior in Children in China: The Role of Self-Efficacy and Gender

Pan

Zhang

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Objectives: Prosocial behavior is essential for individuals’ development, and the study aims to analyze the relationship between parental psychological control and prosocial behavior. Method: The current study investigated the relationships among Paternal Psychological Control (endogenous variable), General Self-Efficacy (mediator), and Prosocial Behaviors (exogenous endogenous variable) via a moderated mediation modeling approach (gender as the moderator). A total of 1822 Chinese students aged from 7- to 17-year-old ( = 12.4 years old, = 1.89, 48.6% girls) were included in the current study. Results: After controlling participants’ age, the only child status, family income, and parent’s education level, results revealed that higher levels of parental control were associated with lower levels of students’ self-efficacy, which, in turn, reduced students’ prosocial behavior intention. Moreover, the relationship between self-efficacy and prosocial behavior intention was moderated by students’ gender, where the positive effects of self-efficacy on prosocial behavior intentions were reduced in girls. Conclusion: Findings highlight the importance of parental psychological control for supporting children’s self-efficacy to promote prosocial behaviors on different gender groups.

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