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Prosocial Behaviors in Context: Examining the Role of Children's Social Companions
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de Guzman, Maria Rosario T.; Carlo, Gustavo; Edwards, Carolyn Pope – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
This study examines the role of immediate social companions in the prosocial behaviors of children from two cultural communities from the USA and the Philippines. Materials for this study comprised behavioral observations drawn from the Six Cultures Study--with 612 five-minute observations of 23 children (12 girls, 11 boys) from Orchard Town, MA…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Foreign Countries, Student Behavior, Peer Relationship
Measurement Invariance in a Measure of Prosocial Moral Reasoning to Use with Adolescents from the USA and Brazil
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Carlo, Gustavo; McGinley, Meredith; Roesch, Scott C.; Kaminski, Jennifer W. – Journal of Moral Education, 2008
Scholars have noted the need to examine the psychometric properties of measures that can be used in evaluating moral education programs. The present study was designed to examine the best-fitting factor model of a commonly-used measure of prosocial moral reasoning (PROM) across samples from Brazil and the USA, gender and adolescent age groups. The…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, College Students, Middle School Students, Factor Structure
A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of Prosocial Behavior among Rural Adolescents
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Carlo, Gustavo; Crockett, Lisa J.; Randall, Brandy A.; Roesch, Scott C. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2007
The present study was designed to investigate stability and changes in prosocial behavior and the parent and peer correlates of prosocial behavior in rural adolescents. Participants were from a rural, low SES community in the Eastern United States. The participants were in 7th, 8th, and 9th grades at Time 1 and 10th, 11th, and 12th grades at Time…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Adolescents, Grade 12, Prosocial Behavior
A Cross-national Study on the Relations among Prosocial Moral Reasoning, Gender Role Orientations, and Prosocial Behaviors.
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Carlo, Gustavo; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Examined correlates of prosocial moral reasoning (PMR) in two studies. Study one investigated differences in PMR in Brazilian children and adolescents and U.S. adolescents. Study two examined relations between PMR and prosocial behaviors and gender role orientations of Brazilian adolescents. Age and gender differences in PMR were similar for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cross Cultural Studies