Journal article
Do adolescents help and share?
Adolescence, Vol.26(102), pp.449-456
1991
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/115650
PMID: 1927675
Abstract
Although developmental and social psychologists have studied prosocial behavior for the past twenty years, its occurrence in adolescents has received little attention. In the present paper, observational and self-report data were collected on 37 nonhandicapped and handicapped (behaviorally disordered) adolescents in public school settings. Helping, sharing, cooperating, comforting, defending, donating, and rescuing were the prosocial behaviors investigated. The adolescents with handicaps displayed significantly more prosocial behavior than did the nonhandicapped adolescents. However, the nonhandicapped adolescents perceived themselves as engaging more frequently in prosocial behavior than did their handicapped peers. The teachers of the handicapped adolescents used a prosocial teaching style more frequently than did the teachers of the nonhandicapped adolescents. Implications for future research and training are discussed.
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- Title
- Do adolescents help and share?
- Creators
- D Miller - Carroll College, Helena, Montana 59625
- Publication Details
- Adolescence, Vol.26(102), pp.449-456
- Academic Unit
- Teaching and Learning, Department of
- Publisher
- United States
- Identifiers
- 99900547428701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article