Variability and change in adolescents' prosocial behavior across multiple time scales

Lysanne W. te Brinke; Suzanne van de Groep; Renske van der Cruijsen; Eveline A. Crone

doi:10.1111/jora.12827

Variability and change in adolescents' prosocial behavior across multiple time scales

Lysanne W. te Brinke^*, Suzanne van de Groep, Renske van der Cruijsen, Eveline A. Crone

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Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies

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Abstract

We examined variability and change in adolescents' prosocial behaviors directed to peers and friends across four time scales: two-years, one-year, two-monthly, and daily. Data from three longitudinal datasets with a total of 569 adolescents (55.7% girl, M_age = 15.23, SD = 3.90) were included. The overall time-related stability of prosocial behavior across time scales was moderate to excellent. Variability did not differ between early (age 10–15) and late (age 16–21) adolescence, but late adolescence was associated with higher mean levels of prosociality. Finally, results indicated that prosocial behaviors measured over longer periods (i.e., two-years and one-year) were positively associated with cognitive processes (perspective taking), whereas prosocial behaviors measured over shorter periods (i.e., two-monthly) were positively associated with affective processes (empathy).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	575-590
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Research on Adolescence
Volume	33
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12827
Publication status	Published - 17 Aug 2022

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This work was supported by an innovative ideas grant of the European Research Council (ERC CoG PROSOCIAL 681632 to E.A.C.). The funding agency had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to submit, or preparation of the manuscript.

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© 2022 The Authors. Journal of Research on Adolescence published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research on Adolescence.

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