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Kwon SJ, van Hoorn J, Lindquist KA, Prinstein MJ, Telzer EH. Age-related changes in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activation are associated with daily prosocial behaviors two years later. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2024; 67:101394. [PMID: 38815469 PMCID: PMC11166707 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2024] [Revised: 05/17/2024] [Accepted: 05/23/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024] Open
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As adolescents acquire agency and become contributing members of society, it is necessary to understand how they help their community. Yet, it is unknown how prosocial behavior develops in the context of community-based prosocial behaviors that are relevant to adolescents, such as donating time to charities. In this longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging study, adolescents (N=172; mean age at wave 1=12.8) completed a prosocial task annually for three years (N=422 and 375 total behavioral and neural data points, respectively), and 14 days of daily diaries reporting on their prosocial behaviors two years later. During the task, adolescents decided how many minutes they would donate to a variety of local charities. We found that adolescents donated less time to charities from early to mid adolescence. Longitudinal whole-brain analyses revealed declines in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) activation, as well as inverted U-shaped changes in precuneus activation when adolescents donated their time from early to mid adolescence. A less steep decrease in vlPFC activation predicted greater real-life prosocial behaviors in youth's daily lives two years later. Our study elucidates the neurodevelopmental mechanisms of prosocial behavior from early to mid adolescence that have enduring effects on daily prosocial behaviors in late adolescence.
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- Seh-Joo Kwon
- Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Newark, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States.
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Buckley L, Atkins T, Perera W, Waller M. Trajectories of Parental Warmth and the Role They Play in Explaining Adolescent Prosocial Behavior. J Youth Adolesc 2024; 53:526-536. [PMID: 37864730 PMCID: PMC10838220 DOI: 10.1007/s10964-023-01887-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/23/2023]
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Adolescent prosocial behavior suggests social competence and it is associated with greater parental warmth yet the experience of warmth through child and adolescent development is not well understood as it relates to such prosocial behavior. A nationally representative dataset from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children cohort was used. The analyses involved multiple waves beginning when children were aged 4-5. The main analyses used a sample of 2723 adolescents aged 16-17 years (Mean, S.D. = 16.45, 0.50; 49.2% female, 50.8% male). Parental warmth trajectories (from ages 4-5 through 16-17 years) were created and used to explore the accumulated effect of a lifecourse of parental warmth on adolescent prosocial behavior as measured when adolescents were aged 16-17 years. There were three trajectories described as, consistent (28.7%), slight decline (51.4%), and declining warmth (19.8%). These were associated with prosocial behavior; adolescents with a slight decline in warmth were 2.2 times less likely than those with consistent warmth to have the highest prosocial behavior. Consistent parental warmth likely provides greatest benefit for increased prosocial behavior in mid-adolescence.
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- Lisa Buckley
- The School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Herston, 4006, QLD, Australia.
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- The School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Herston, 4006, QLD, Australia
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- The School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Herston, 4006, QLD, Australia
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- The School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Herston, 4006, QLD, Australia
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Corbett B, Dautel J, Tomašić Humer J, Tomovska Misoska A, Taylor LK. Intergroup resource allocation among children from minority and majority groups in three settings of former conflict. Child Dev 2023; 94:e393-e402. [PMID: 37315118 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Revised: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Intergroup resource allocation was examined among 333 children aged 7-11 (51.9% female) within three settings of former intergroup conflict (January-June 2021). Children represented both ethno-religious minority and majority groups (Republic of North Macedonia: Albanians, Macedonians; Croatia: Serbs, Croats; Northern Ireland: Catholics, Protestants), from predominantly White and middle-class families. Ingroup bias in average resource allocation amounts was demonstrated by both minority and majority children, across settings, in the context of novel targets (historic conflict rivals). Majority children were also more likely to give equally (which maintains the status quo) than minority children. Giving equally increased with age for both minority and majority children, despite being in "zero-sum," conflict settings. Equitable intergroup resource allocation in such settings has implications for conflict transformation.
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- B Corbett
- Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK
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- Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK
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- Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK
- University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Gülseven Z, Puente K, Tulagan N, Zarrett N, Simpkins SD, Vandell DL. Children’s self-control as an antecedent of adolescent prosociality and adult civic engagement. APPLIED DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE 2023. [DOI: 10.1080/10888691.2022.2158827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- School of Education, University of California, Irvine
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Grütter J, Dhakal S, Killen M. Socioeconomic status biases among children and adolescents: The role of school diversity and teacher beliefs in Nepal. Child Dev 2022; 93:1475-1492. [PMID: 35612279 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2021] [Revised: 02/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Investigating socioeconomic status (SES) biases, Nepalese children and adolescents (N = 605, 52% girls, Mage = 13.21, SDage = 1.74) attending schools that varied by SES composition were asked to anticipate whether a peer would include a high or low SES character as a math partner. Novel findings were that students attending mixed SES schools were more likely to expect inclusion of a low SES character than were students attending high SES schools. With age, high SES participants attending mixed SES schools increasingly expected the inclusion of the low SES character. Moreover, teachers' democratic beliefs in high SES schools predicted inclusive expectations. Teacher beliefs and school diversity play a significant role for fostering students' inclusivity in educational contexts.
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- Jeanine Grütter
- Empirical Educational Research, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Institute for Diversity in Education, University for Teacher Education, Lucerne, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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Corbit J, Didkowsky N, Gora V, Reddy H, Muhammad S, Callaghan T. Facilitating the prosocial development of Rohingya refugee children. J Exp Child Psychol 2022; 220:105414. [PMID: 35366609 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2022] [Revised: 02/23/2022] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Prosociality is essential for the success of human societies. Children's prosocial development is found to increase in contexts that foster collaboration or emotion perspective taking and is negatively affected by exposure to extreme psychosocial trauma and adversity. Based on these findings, we assessed the effect of collaboration and emotion perspective taking on three types of prosocial behavior-helping, sharing, and comforting-in Rohingya children living in a refugee settlement in India (N = 122; age range = 4-11 years). Half of the children were born in Myanmar (i.e., experienced forced migration from genocide), and half were born in the refugee settlement after their families left Myanmar. We also included a small sample of Rohingya Canadian children (N = 20; age range = 3-12 years) as a within-culture comparison of overall levels of prosocial responding, which were higher in this group relative to children in a refugee settlement. We assigned children in the refugee settlement to one of three conditions-Collaboration, Emotion Perspective Taking (intervention conditions), or Drawing (control condition)-and assessed the three types of prosocial responding following the intervention. Prosocial responding was highest after Collaboration for children born in the refugee settlement and was highest after Emotion Perspective Taking for children born in Myanmar. Overall, these findings point to the potential prosocial benefit in refugee contexts for intervention programs that are responsive to children's lived experience.
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- John Corbit
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5, Canada
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- SAVE THE CHILDREN | GM - State Programme Telangana Andhra Pradesh State Programme Office, Secunderabad, Telangana State, India
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- SAVE THE CHILDREN | GM - State Programme Telangana Andhra Pradesh State Programme Office, Secunderabad, Telangana State, India
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- Department of Psychology, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5, Canada
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Taylor LK, O’Driscoll D, Merrilees CE, Goeke-Morey M, Shirlow P, Cummings EM. Trust, Forgiveness, and Peace: The Influence of Adolescent Social Identity in a Setting of Intergroup Conflict. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT 2022; 46:101-111. [PMID: 35783662 PMCID: PMC9248412 DOI: 10.1177/01650254211066768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2023]
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Following the signing of peace agreements, post-accord societies often remain deeply divided across group lines. There is a need to identify antecedents of youth's support for peace and establish more constructive intergroup relations. This article explored the effect of out-group trust, intergroup forgiveness and social identity on support for the peace process among youth from the historic majority and minorities communities in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The sample comprised of 667 adolescents (49% male; M=15.74, SD=1.99 years old) across two time points. Results from the structural equation model suggested that out-group trust was related to intergroup forgiveness over time, while forgiveness related to later support for the peace process. Strength of in-group social identity differentially moderated how out-group trust and intergroup forgiveness relate to later support for peace among youth from the conflict-related groups (i.e., Protestants and Catholics). Implications for consolidating peace in Northern Ireland are discussed, which may be relevant to other settings affected by intergroup conflict.
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Moran D, Taylor LK. Outgroup prosocial behaviour among children and adolescents in conflict settings. Curr Opin Psychol 2021; 44:69-73. [PMID: 34571368 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2021] [Revised: 08/24/2021] [Accepted: 08/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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More than 420 million children live amid political conflict. In such settings, understanding the development of prosocial behaviours, specifically directed at outgroups, can provide opportunities for peacebuilding. Informed by research on intergroup competition and structural inequality, we focus on outgroup prosocial behaviour targeting conflict rivals. Already from a young age, children are politically socialised and show intergroup biases that dampen helping behaviours towards conflict rivals, which continue into adulthood. We review factors that shape youth's interpersonal helping and broader forms of prosociality, such as civic engagement, across group lines. We conceptualise outgroup prosocial behaviour along a continuum, ranging from interpersonal acts to broader structural and cultural constructive change. We conclude with directions for future research.
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- University College Dublin, Ireland; Queen's University Belfast, Ireland.
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Davis AN, McGinley M, Carlo G, Schwartz SJ, Unger JB, Des Rosiers SE, Baezconde-Garbanati L, Lorenzo-Blanco EI, Soto D. Examining Discrimination and Familism Values as Longitudinal Predictors of Prosocial Behaviors Among Recent Immigrant Adolescents. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT 2021; 45:317-326. [PMID: 39005848 PMCID: PMC11245281 DOI: 10.1177/01650254211005561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/16/2024]
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The current study was designed to address gaps in the existing literature by examining the role of discrimination and familism values as predictors of multiple forms of prosocial behaviors across time in a sample of recent immigrant Latino/a adolescents. Participants were 302 recent immigrant Latino/a adolescents (53.3% male; average age 14.51 years, range = 13-17). Data were collected from adolescents in two US cities: Los Angeles (n = 150) and Miami (n = 152). Adolescents completed measures of their own discrimination experiences, familism values, and tendency to engage in six forms of prosocial behaviors. Results indicated generally positive links between familism values and prosocial behaviors. Discrimination also positively predicted public prosocial behaviors and negatively predicted altruistic prosocial behaviors. We discuss the development of cultural processes and perceptions of discrimination experiences, and how these factors predict helping behaviors among immigrant adolescents.
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Jiménez-Moya G, Luengo Kanacri BP, Cumsille P, Martínez ML, Berger C. You May Have My Help but Not Necessarily My Care: The Effect of Social Class and Empathy on Prosociality. Front Psychol 2021; 12:588017. [PMID: 33897519 PMCID: PMC8062701 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.588017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2020] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Previous research has focused on the relation between social class and prosocial behavior. However, this relation is yet unclear. In this work, we shed light on this issue by considering the effect of the level of empathy and the social class of the recipient of help on two types of prosociality, namely helping and caring. In one experimental study, we found that for high-class participants, empathy had a positive effect on helping, regardless of the recipient’s social class. However, empathy had no effect for low-class participants. When it comes to caring, empathy had a positive effect for both high and low-class participants, but only when the recipient of help belonged to the same social class. This highlights that empathy by itself is not sufficient to promote cooperative relations and that the social class of the recipient of help should be taken into account to shed light on this issue.
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- Gloria Jiménez-Moya
- School of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- School of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- School of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- School of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Tabares ASG, Palacio NMD. The Protective Role of Empathy and Emotional Self-efficacy in Predicting Moral Disengagement in Adolescents Separated from Illegal Armed Groups. ANUARIO DE PSICOLOGÍA JURÍDICA 2021. [DOI: 10.5093/apj2021a10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Rupar M, Sekerdej M, Jamróz-Dolińska K. The role of national identification in explaining political and social civic engagement. GROUP PROCESSES & INTERGROUP RELATIONS 2020. [DOI: 10.1177/1368430220967975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The present research examines the relationship between distinct forms of national identification—constructive patriotism, conventional patriotism, and glorification—and both political and social engagement. Three correlational studies were conducted in Poland. In Study 1 ( N = 234) and Study 2 ( N = 316), using self-report measures, it was found that constructive patriotism positively predicts both forms of civic engagement. Conventional patriotism positively predicted social engagement (Studies 1 and 3). Glorification negatively predicted political engagement. Study 3 ( N = 969) supported the link between these different forms of national identification and political and social engagement, using both self-report and behavioural measures of civic engagement. The findings suggest that national identification can both promote and deter civic engagement.
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- Mirjana Rupar
- Jagiellonian University, Poland
- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Czech Republic
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Townsend D, Taylor LK, Merrilees CE, Furey A, Goeke-Morey MC, Shirlow P, Mark Cummings E. Youth in Northern Ireland: Linking Violence Exposure, Emotional Insecurity, and the Political Macrosystem. Monogr Soc Res Child Dev 2020; 85:7-123. [PMID: 33184897 PMCID: PMC7702086 DOI: 10.1111/mono.12423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Growing up in the aftermath of armed conflict puts youth at a higher risk for psychopathology—particularly in societies like Northern Ireland which continue to be characterized by intergroup tension and cyclical violence. This risk may be heightened during adolescence, when youth are beginning to explore their identities and are becoming more aware of intergroup dynamics in both their immediate communities and the broader society. It is also during this stage when youth increasingly witness or engage in antisocial behavior and sectarian activities. A series of studies in Belfast conducted by Cummings et al. (2014, Child Dev Perspect, 12(1), 16–38; 2019, J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol, 48(2), 296–305) showed that adolescents’ exposure to sectarian violence resulted in heightened emotional insecurity about the community and subsequent adjustment problems. Though the impact of direct exposure to violence is well documented, few studies have accounted for the influence of sectarianism that occurs outside of one's immediate environment. These influences may include the general climate surrounding events that are not experienced firsthand but are nonetheless salient, such as the overarching levels of tension between groups or societal discourse that is threatening to one's identity. These higher‐level influences, often referred to collectively as the macrosystem, are a necessary component to consider for adequately assessing one's socio‐developmental environment. Yet, measurement at this level of the social ecology has proven elusive in past work. The current study advances research in this area by using newspaper coding as a method of measuring the political macrosystem in Northern Ireland and assessing whether a tense or threatening climate serves as an added risk factor for youth living in Belfast. In the current study, we measured sectarian violence at the level of the macrosystem by systematically collecting and coding newspaper articles from Northern Ireland that were published between 2006 and 2011 (N = 2,797). Each article was coded according to its level of overall political tension between Catholics and Protestants, threat to Catholics, and threat to Protestants. When aggregated, these assessments reflected the overarching trends in Catholic–Protestant relations during this period. In order to assess the association between these sociopolitical trends and the direct experiences of adolescents, the newspaper coding was linked with five waves of survey data from families (N = 999) in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas of Belfast. Using a series of multilevel moderation analyses, we then tested whether intergroup tension and ingroup threat moderated the relation between adolescents’ direct exposure to violence and their emotional insecurity. These analyses were followed by a thematic analysis of the coded newspaper articles in order to provide further context to the findings. The results indicated that adolescents’ response to direct exposure to sectarian violence varied based on the political climate at the time of their interview. Overall, the adolescents’ emotional insecurity about the community increased with exposure to sectarian violence. During periods when the sociopolitical climate was characterized by high levels of intergroup political tension, this relation was slightly weaker—regardless of the adolescents’ ingroup (i.e., Protestant vs. Catholic). During periods when the sociopolitical climate was coded as threatening, this relation was weaker for Catholic adolescents. That is, high levels of macro‐level threat—particularly events coded as threatening for Protestants—seemed to be a protective factor for Catholic adolescents. Group differences were also found based on the adolescents’ cumulative amount of exposure to sectarian violence. As threat in the macrosystem increased, Catholic adolescents who were directly exposed to higher than average levels of sectarian violence became more emotionally secure, while Catholics with little to no exposure to violence became more insecure. Contrastingly, Protestant adolescents directly exposed to higher than average levels of sectarian violence were more insecure than Protestants with little to no violence exposure. A thematic analysis of the newspaper articles revealed the categories of events that were viewed by coders as politically tense and threatening. Five primary themes emerged: ineffective policing and justice, family and community unrest, memories of violence, destabilized leadership, and organized paramilitary activity. Many of the articles coded as most threatening reported on a spike in attacks organized by dissident republican groups—that is, members of the Catholic community with, particularly hardline views. This may be pertinent to the finding that associations between sectarian violence exposure and emotional insecurity were exacerbated during this time for Protestants but not for Catholics. Findings from the thematic analysis provide a deeper examination of the context of events taking place during the study period, as well as their potential bearing on interpretation of the macro‐level effects. In conclusion, these findings illustrate how one's response to the immediate environment can vary based on shifts in the political macrosystem. The current study thus contributes conceptually, empirically, and methodologically to the understanding of process relations between multiple levels of the social ecology and adolescent functioning. These results may further inform the design of future interventions and policies meant to lessen the impact of political violence. The methods used here may also be useful for the study of other contexts in which macrosystem effects are likely to have a salient impact on individual wellbeing.
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Gómez Tabares AS, Narvaez Marin M. Tendencias Prosociales y su Relación con la Empatía y la Autoeficacia Emocional en Adolescentes en Vulnerabilidad Psicosocial. REVISTA COLOMBIANA DE PSICOLOGÍA 2020. [DOI: 10.15446/rcp.v29n2.78430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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El objetivo consistió en analizar las diferencias de género y la relación entre empatía, autoeficacia emocional y tendencias prosociales en adolescentes que han vivido situaciones de vulnerabilidad psicosocial, ubicados en una institución de protección en Manizales y en tres municipios de Caldas (Colombia). El estudio se realizó con una metodología cuantitativa, diseño no experimental de tipo transversal, alcance descriptivo-correlacional; la muestra fue no probabilística a disponibilidad, conformada por 69 adolescentes entre 12 y 18 años. Se usaron como instrumentos la Escala de Tendencias Prosociales revisada (PTM-R), Índice de Reactividad Interpersonal (IRI), y Escala de Autoeficacia para la Regulación Emocional (RESE). El modelo empírico muestra que la expresión de emociones positivas y el manejo de emociones negativas requieren del rol mediador de la empatía, en sus dos componentes, cognitivo y emocional, para explicar las motivaciones prosociales en los adolescentes. Por lo tanto, se concluye que es necesario articular la investigación y la intervención psicosocial y educativa en el estudio y estimulación de la prosocialidad, así como los factores positivamente asociados en poblaciones que han vivido experiencias de vulneración psicosocial
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Taylor LK. The Developmental Peacebuilding Model (DPM) of Children’s Prosocial Behaviors in Settings of Intergroup Conflict. CHILD DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Taylor LK, Dautel J, Rylander R. Symbols and labels: Children's awareness of social categories in a divided society. JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2020; 48:1512-1526. [PMID: 32176326 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2019] [Revised: 01/24/2020] [Accepted: 02/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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AIMS How and when children develop an understanding of group boundaries have implications for conflict resolution. When social divisions are not perceptually distinct, symbols become particularly important. Framed by the Social Identity Development Theory, this study was designed to assess children's categorization of symbols with conflict-related group labels. METHOD In Northern Ireland, 218 children (M = 8.14, SD = 1.83, range 5-11 years old) participated in a novel task designed for this study. The sample was evenly split by child gender and community background. RESULTS Children sorted symbols above chance with both the hypothesized national (i.e., British/Irish) and ethno-political (i.e., Protestant/Catholic) labels, showing a stronger association for the former. Sorting was also stronger for ingroup symbols, compared to outgroup symbols, and increased with age. CONCLUSION These findings reflect the potential role that a divided social world has on the development of children's understanding of conflict-related groups. The results also have implications for intergroup relations among children in divided societies.
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- Laura K Taylor
- School of Psychology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
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- School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
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- School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Taylor LK, O'Driscoll D, Dautel JB, McKeown S. Empathy to action: Child and adolescent out‐group attitudes and prosocial behaviors in a setting of intergroup conflict. SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/sode.12421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Laura K. Taylor
- School of Psychology University College Dublin Dublin Ireland
- School of Psychology Queen's University Belfast Belfast UK
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Štambuk M, Taylor LK, Löw A, Čorkalo Biruški D, Merrilees CE, Ajduković D, Cummings EM. Parental competitive victimhood and interethnic discrimination among their children: The mediating role of ethnic socialization and symbolic threat to the in-group. BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2019; 59:87-110. [PMID: 30883836 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2017] [Revised: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Links between competitive victimhood and discrimination are well documented. However, the mechanisms how victimhood beliefs remain relevant for decades and how conflict survivors can shape attitudes and behaviours of the post-conflict generations are little understood. Following the Transgenerational Transmission Hypothesis and the Integrated Threat Theory, we propose that the link between parental competitive victimhood and discrimination among their children is mediated through family ethnic socialization and symbolic threat to the in-group. Participants were families that included youth (N = 227) and their parents (172 mothers, 150 fathers) in Vukovar, Croatia. A multiple group, chain mediation model was conducted with parental competitive victimhood as the predictor; youth ethnic socialization and symbolic threat as sequential mediators; and youth tendency to discriminate against the outgroup and perceived ethnic in-group discrimination as outcomes. The findings revealed significant indirect effects of the competitive victimhood on both outcomes, via the proposed mediators. The only difference in the model between majority Croats and minority Serbs was the path from symbolic threat to tendency to discriminate, which was positive and significant for both groups, but stronger among Croats. The findings imply that interventions in post-conflict settings need to address family ethnic socialization processes in addition to directly working with youth.
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Affiliation(s)
| | - Laura K Taylor
- University College Dublin, Ireland.,Queen's University, Belfast, UK
| | - Ajana Löw
- Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
| | - Dinka Čorkalo Biruški
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
| | - E Mark Cummings
- Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
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