Citation

Mestre V, Samper P, Nácher MJ, Tur A, Cortés MT. Psychol. Rep. 2006; 98(1): 30-36.

Affiliation

Faculty of Psychology, Valencia University, Avda. Blasco Ibañez 21, Valencia-46010, Spain. Maria.V.Mestre@uv.es

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16673947

Abstract

A review of personal and family variables that regulate prosocial behavior is based on a sample of 1,433 Spanish adolescents (ages 9 to 13; 743 boys and 690 girls) who were assessed on the Prosocial Reasoning Objective Measure, the Physical and Verbal Aggression Scale, the Emotional Instability Scale, the State-Trait Anger Inventory, the Child's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory, the Prosocial Behavior Scale, and the Index of Empathy for Children and Adolescents. Discriminant analyses showed that empathy, self-control in anger-provoking situations, and affection in family relationships are the best predictors of prosocial behavior.

Language: en