How much is it going to cost me? Bidirectional relations between adolescents' moral personality and prosocial behavior.

Prosocial behavior and caring in adolescence: relations to self-understanding and social judgment.

The relation of self-understanding and moral judgment to dedicated prosocial behavior is investigated. Participants were African-American and Latin-American adolescents who had been nominated by community leaders for having demonstrated unusual commitments to care for others or the community (care exemplars). The care exemplars, and matched comparison adolescents, were extensively interviewed o...

Temperament and Prosocial Behavior: The Mediating Role of Prosocial Reasoning, Emotion Regulation, and Emotion Lability

Objective: Our study aims to examine the mediating role of prosocial moral reasoning, emotion regulation, and emotion lability in the relation between temperamental characteristics and prosocial behaviour. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, a sample of 202 students were recruited through random multistage sampling method. The participants were interviewed about their prosocial moral reasonin...

Moral Identity and Adolescent Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors: Interactions with Moral Disengagement and Self-regulation.

Moral identity has been positively linked to prosocial behaviors and negatively linked to antisocial behaviors; but, the processes by which it is linked to such outcomes are unclear. The purpose of the present study was to examine moral identity not only as a predictor, but also as a moderator of relationships between other predictors (moral disengagement and self-regulation) and youth outcomes...

MORAL EMOTIONS AND BEHAVIOR 1 Running head: MORAL EMOTIONS AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR The Relation of Moral Emotion Attributions to Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior: A Meta-Analysis

This meta-analytic review of 42 studies covering 8,009 participants examines the relation of moral emotion attributions to prosocial and antisocial behavior. A significant association is found between moral emotion attributions and prosocial and antisocial behaviors (d = .26, 95% CI: 0.15, 0.38; d = .39, 95% CI: 0.29, 0.49). Effect sizes differ considerably across studies and this heterogeneity...

What Will My Parents Think? Relations Among Adolescentsâ•Ž Expected Parental Reactions, Prosocial Moral Reasoning, and Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors