Emotional Instability, Physical and Verbal Aggression, and Prosocial Behavior as Precursors of Scholastic Achievement and Social Adjustment

1997 ◽  
pp. 111-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. V. Caprara ◽  
C. Barbaranelli ◽  
M. Incatasciato ◽  
C. Pastorelli ◽  
A. Rabasca
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Verbal Aggression ◽  
Scholastic Achievement ◽  
Emotional Instability

scholarly journals Vínculos familiares e inclusión social. Variables predictoras de la conducta prosocial en la infancia

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana M. Tur-Porcar ◽  
Anna Doménech ◽  
Vicenta Mestre
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Parental Attachment ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Peer Acceptance ◽  
Peer Rejection ◽  
Predictor Variables ◽  
Positive Relationships ◽  
Emotional Instability

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between prosocial behavior and family environment variables (attachment to the mother and father and abandonment by the mother and father), personal variables (emotional instability, aggression, and coping strategies), and variables that relate to the immediate social environment (peer acceptance and rejection). This study also examined the predictors of prosocial behavior. Prosocial behavior is a personal protective factor that encourages positive relationships between peers and promotes personal and social adjustment behaviors (Mikolajewski, Chavarria, Moltisanti, Hart &amp; Taylor, 2014). A study with a sample of 1,447 children (50.4% male and 49.6% female) aged between 7 and 12 years (<em>M</em> = 9.27; <em>SD</em> = 1.36) was conducted. The results confirmed the positive relationships between prosocial behavior and parental attachment, functional coping, and peer acceptance. The results also confirmed the negative relationships between prosocial behavior and abandonment by the parents, emotional instability, aggression, dysfunctional coping, and peer rejection. The positive predictor variables for prosocial behavior were attachment to the mother, functional coping, and expectations of peer acceptance. The negative predictor variables for prosocial behavior were emotional instability, physical and verbal aggression, and expectations of peer rejection. The findings have educational implications, which are discussed herein.

Measuring emotional instability, prosocial behavior and aggression in pre-adolescents: A cross-national study

1997 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 691-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Concetta Pastorelli ◽  
Claudio Barbaranelli ◽  
Ivo Cermak ◽  
Sandor Rozsa ◽  
Gian Vittorio Caprara
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
National Study ◽  
Emotional Instability ◽  
Cross National Study ◽  
Cross National

Examining the predictors of prosocial behavior in young offenders and nonoffenders

2021 ◽  
pp. 016502542199593
Author(s):  
Paula Samper ◽  
Anna Llorca ◽  
Elisabeth Malonda ◽  
M. Vicenta Mestre
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Adaptive Behavior ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Young Offenders ◽  
Adolescent Offenders ◽  
Emotional Instability ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Social Counseling

Research on young offenders has primarily focused on identifying predictors of the maladaptive, aggressive behavior; there is a scarcity of evidence on factors that relate to prosocial behavior in these adolescents. The current study examined the link from parenting, emotional instability, and prosocial reasoning to prosocial behavior, while also examining the mediating roles of empathic concern (EC) and perspective taking (PT) in a sample of Spanish adolescent offenders compared to a sample of nonoffenders. Participants were 440 adolescents: 220 young offenders residing in four Youth Detention Centres of Valencia (67.3% men) and 220 enrolled in public and private schools within the metropolitan area of Valencia (65.9% men). The two subsamples were similar in age (15−18 years), gender, and social class. Analyses show differences in mother’s permissiveness with empathy (PT and EC), in emotional instability and internalized reasoning with PT in predicting prosocial behavior in offenders and nonoffenders adolescents. EC and PT are significative and positively related to prosocial behavior in both groups. These findings have implications for prevention and reeducation interventions oriented to social reinsertion of adolescent offenders and the development of family and social counseling programs that favor adaptive behavior.

Toward a reorientation of research on aggression

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gian Vittorio Caprara ◽  
Concetta Pastorelli
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Verbal Aggression ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Emotional Instability ◽  
Traditional Paradigm

A number of studies are reported which sustain the importance of individual differences in the study of aggression. Irritability, emotional susceptibility, dissipatio—nrumination, tolerance toward violence, and proneness to guilt feelings provide a better understanding of the various forms of aggression. Prosocial behaviour, emotional instability, and physical and verbal aggression proved to be important indicators to children's more general adjustment. To go beyond the traditional paradigm of research on aggression a structural and interactive—interpersonal analysis of aggression is recommended. Aggression as a unitary phenomenon is called into question. Instead, it is stated that the various facets of aggression find an explanation and acquire meaning within the context of global personality development and functioning.

Positive effects of promoting prosocial behavior in early adolescence

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 386-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gian Vittorio Caprara ◽  
Bernadette Paula Luengo Kanacri ◽  
Maria Gerbino ◽  
Antonio Zuffianò ◽  
Guido Alessandri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Verbal Aggression ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Growth Curve Analysis ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Pilot School

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a pilot school-based intervention called CEPIDEA, designed to promote prosocial behavior in early adolescence. The study took place in a middle school located in a small city near Rome. The intervention group included 151 students (52.3% males; Mage = 12.4), and the control group 173 students (50.3% females; Mage = 13.0). Both groups were assessed at three time points, each 6 months apart. A Latent Growth Curve analysis revealed that the intervention group, compared to the control group, showed an increase of helping behavior along with a decrease of physical and verbal aggression across time. Current results also showed that the increase of helping behavior mediated the decline of verbal aggression in adolescents who had attended the intervention. Participants of CEPIDEA also attained higher grades than the control group at the end of middle school. Overall, findings suggest that promoting prosocial behavior may serve to counteract aggressive conduct and enhance academic achievement during adolescence.

The prediction of university adjustment in Turkish late adolescents through Five Factor Personality dimensions

2021 ◽  
Vol 11(73) ◽  
pp. 114-127
Author(s):  
Sevda Aslan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Emotional Instability ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
University Life ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
University Adjustment ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this study was to to analyze the relationship between the big five personality traits and adjustment to university by examining the extent to which the self-assessment of Turkish adolescents personality traits predict their adjustment to university. The study group consisted of 168 students: 101 females and 67 males. The study data was collected using The Adjustment to University Life Scale and the Adjective-Based Personality Test (ABPT). The findings of this study revealed that personal adjustment and academic adjustment predicts emotional instability/neuroticism and conscientiousness in a meaningful way. Also, social adjustment predicts agreeableness in a meaningful way. A number of recommendations were then presented based on our study’s findings.

The joy of obligation: Human cultural worldviews can enhance the rewards of meeting obligations

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma E. Buchtel
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Heritage Culture ◽  
Confucian Heritage Culture ◽  
Cultural Worldviews

Abstract Is it particularly human to feel coerced into fulfilling moral obligations, or is it particularly human to enjoy them? I argue for the importance of taking into account how culture promotes prosocial behavior, discussing how Confucian heritage culture enhances the satisfaction of meeting one's obligations.

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