Longitudinal associations between prosocial behavior and behavioral problems across childhood: A robust random-intercept cross-lagged panel model.
Developmental Psychology, vol. 58, pp. 1139–1155
Abstract
= 512). To obtain robust results, two parental reported questionnaires and an observational task were used as prosocial behavior assessments. In line with the literature, we found a significant between-person association between externalizing behavior and parent reported prosocial behavior in middle childhood, but not in early childhood. Some evidence indicated that changes in externalizing problems affect later prosocial behavior in middle childhood. Overall, however, the RI-CLPMs provided most support for the hypothesis that within-person changes in prosocial behavior are not related to within-person changes in behavioral problems. Thus, our findings did not support the hypothesis that increased prosocial behavior directly results in decreased behavioral problems, but emphasizes the need to take into account the multifaceted nature of prosocial behavior. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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Department of Methodology and Statistics
Department of Methodology and Statistics, Utrecht University
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Leiden University · Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Leiden Consortium on Individual Development
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Leiden Consortium on Individual Development, Leiden University
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Mara van der Meulen Aachen Institute of Psychology, Leiden University Leiden Consortium on Individual Development
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Leiden Consortium on Individual Development
Institute of Psychology, Leiden University
Leiden Consortium on Individual Development, Leiden University
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Leiden University · Erasmus University Rotterdam
Affiliation as printed
Leiden Consortium on Individual Development
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Leiden Consortium on Individual Development, Leiden University
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