OBJECTIVES to adapt and validate the Inventory of Family Protective Factors (IFPF) for the Portuguese culture. This instrument assesses protective factors that contribute to family resilience. Studies addressing resilience are embedded within the salutogenic paradigm, i.e. it addresses protective factors of individuals or groups without underestimating risk factors or vulnerability. METHOD in...

Research has returned mixed results concerning the relationship between prosocial motivation and citizenship behavior. Building from research suggesting that mixed motives might explain these equivocal findings, we conducted two field studies examining the interaction between prosocial and competitive motives and two types of citizenship behavior. Prosocial motivation, but not competitive motiv...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Adverse childhood experiences Professional quality of life Resilience Human service professionals The current study investigated the relationship between ACEs, resilience, and work environment and professional quality of life including compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary trauma stress among a group of child welfare professionals working with children ...

Children with disruptive behavior disorders experience substantial social challenges; however, the factors that account for (i.e., mediate), or influence (i.e., moderate), peer problems are not well understood. This study tested whether symptoms of Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder were associated with peer impairment and whether prosocial skills mediated or moderated these ass...

label commonly used to refer to such children is resilient. This review of literature will examine what it is about these children that enable them to bounce right back from adversity, and what makes them immune to the factors that negatively affect others. More specifically, this review will examine protective factors that contribute to resilience. The literature has documented individual char...

Article history: Received 18 August 2016 Revised 2 November 2016 Accepted 3 November 2016 Available online xxxx Two assumptions guide the current research. First, people's desire to see themselves as moral disposes them to make attributions that enhance or protect their moral self-image: When approached with a prosocial request, people are inclined to attribute their own noncompliance to extern...

Bidirectional theories of social development have been around for over 40 years (Bell, 1968), yet they have been applied primarily to the study of antisocial development. In the present study, the reciprocal relationship between parenting behavior and children's socially competent behaviors were examined. Using the National Institute of Child Health and Development Study of Early Child Care dat...

To review research examining the influence of character on adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH). We defined character as comprising two positive youth development constructs: prosocial norms and spirituality. We conducted a systematic review of behavioral research published from 1985 through 2007 that examined the association between two character constructs (prosocial norms and spi...