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Prosociality Across Adolescence: a Large Cross-Sectional Study

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  • Jinlong Su

    (Peking University)

  • Chunyan Yao

    (Beijing Xuerenli Technology Company Ltd.)

  • Meng Pei

    (Peking University)

  • Yanjie Su

    (Peking University)

Abstract

Studies on the development of prosociality in adolescents have largely been based on Western populations and those studies mainly focused on the development of prosocial behavior. The current study regarded prosociality as a personal trait and examined changes in the emotional, cognitive and behavioral aspects of prosociality during adolescence in a collectivistic culture. With a sample of 9813 Chinese adolescents, we measured their sympathy, perspective taking, and compliant prosocial behavior as well as performance in Dictator Game and Ultimatum Game. The results showed that in general all the measured indicators of prosociality slightly declined with age in adolescents, regardless of gender and residence. Moreover, compared with the emotional and cognitive aspects, the behavioral aspect of prosociality showed slightly larger declines. Our findings suggest that prosociality might decrease with age in adolescence in such a culture.

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  • Jinlong Su & Chunyan Yao & Meng Pei & Yanjie Su, 2020. "Prosociality Across Adolescence: a Large Cross-Sectional Study," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 13(1), pages 131-145, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:chinre:v:13:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1007_s12187-019-09668-w
    DOI: 10.1007/s12187-019-09668-w
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