Child development, 2010-11, Vol.81 (6), p.1814-1827
2010
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Toddlers' Prosocial Behavior: From Instrumental to Empathic to Altruistic Helping
- Ist Teil von
- Child development, 2010-11, Vol.81 (6), p.1814-1827
- Ort / Verlag
- Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2010
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- The study explored how the meaning of prosocial behavior changes over toddler hood. Sixty-five 18-and 30-month-olds could help an adult in 3 contexts: instrumental (action based), empathie (emotion based), and altruistic (costly). Children at both ages helped readily in instrumental tasks. For 18-month-olds, empathie helping was significantly more difficult than instrumental helping and required greater communication from the adult about her needs. Altruistic helping, which involved giving up an object of the child's own, was the most difficult for children at both ages. Findings suggest that over the 2nd year of life, prosocial behavior develops from relying on action understanding and explicit communications to understanding others' emotions from subtle cues. Developmental trajectories of social-cognitive and motivational components of early helping are discussed.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0009-3920eISSN: 1467-8624DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01512.xTitel-ID: cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3088085
- Format
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- Schlagworte
- Adult, Adults, Age, Altruism, Behavior, Behavioural psychology, Behavioural sciences, Biological altruism, Biological and medical sciences, Child, Child Development, Child psychology, Child, Preschool, Children, Cognition & reasoning, Cognitive Development, Communication, Cues, Developmental psychology, Emotions, Empathy, EMPIRICAL ARTICLES, Female, Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology, Helping Behavior, Helping Relationship, Human behaviour, Humans, Infant, Interpersonal Communication, Male, Meaning, Motivation, Neuropsychological Tests, Newborn. Infant, Personality Development, Preschool children, Prosocial Behavior, Prosocial behaviour, Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry, Psychology. Psychophysiology, Social Cognition, Social interaction, Task Analysis, Toddlers, Young children