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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"prosocial behaviour"”.
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Does Screen Time Help or Hinder Toddlers' Development of Prosocial Behaviour?
… less is known about how screen time might affect prosocial behaviour, a key area of development in early childhood. The current prospective longitudinal study involved a sample of 195 (predominantly affluent and educated) families in the East of England and aimed to add clarity to discussions …
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Biophilia and Wellbeing: A multi-method study on indoor plants, mental health, and prosocial behaviour
… the impact of indoor plants on mental health and prosocial behaviour, alongside examining the preferences for plant characteristics and its relation to perceived wellbeing. Three studies were conducted with students at the University of Cambridge, collecting both quantitative and qualitative data. …
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Ontario Adults' Mental Health, Wellbeing, and Prosocial Behaviour During the First 16 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study
… assessment of the mental health, wellbeing, and prosocial behaviour of Ontario adults aged 30–59 (those at highest risk for losing years of healthy life due to chronic disease) during the first 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic (April 2020–August 2021). To address this dissertation’s purpose …
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Cognitive predictors of aggression, prosocial behaviour and peer acceptance across early childhood: the role of cool and hot executive function and theory of mind
… social outcomes, including aggression, prosocial behaviour and peer acceptance. However, understanding of these relations is limited by the focus of research on broad behaviour categories and on cool-cognitive EF skills, to the neglect of hot-affective EF, and the lack of longitudinal …
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Adolescents' responses to the distress of others: the influence of multiple attachment figures via empathic concern
… little is known about the development of prosocial behaviour during this life period. Attachment theory, although largely absent from the literature in this area, provides an informative theoretical description of how prosocial behaviours in response to the distress of others may be …
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Marital Conflict, Emotional Security, and Young Children's Social and Emotional Competence
… social competence, including social skills, prosocial behaviour, and aggression, and emotional competence, including emotion regulation and emotion lability/negativity. Children completed tasks that assessed their hostile attributions and their emotion knowledge. Destructive marital conflict …
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Predictors of moral behaviour in football
… present thesis was to investigate predictors of prosocial and antisocial aspects of morality in football. In Study 1, moral identity, task, and ego orientations were included to predict prosocial and antisocial judgement and behaviour. Prosocial judgement was predicted by task orientation at low …
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Humility Predicts Eudaimonic Well-Being and Compassionate Action in a Daily Experience Sampling Study
… predicts greater psychological well-being and prosocial behaviour (Exline & Hill, 2012; Worthington et al., 2017). However, research is largely cross-sectional, and mechanisms underlying these relationships remain unexplored. Further, few studies explore nuances in the relationship between …
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A Case Study of the "Who is NOBODY?" Project: A Character Development Program for Children with Learning Disabilities
… three data lenses: positive character traits, prosocial behaviour, and strong self-efficacy – leading to the promotion of strong character development and self-esteem. Taken together, the “Who is NOBODY?” program was shown to be a successful remediation program for supporting vulnerable …
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The Effect of Power on Empathy for Pain
… components using a combination of surveys, behavioural tasks and electroencephalogram (EEG). I hypothesise that social power dampens empathy for pain, in that powerful individuals have reduced empathic responses when observing another in pain. In chapter 2, I examined whether perceived …
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The use of Grimm's fairy tales to understand the moral content in fairy tales
… (1988) research and Eisenberg's theory of prosocial behaviour (1992). The findings demonstrated that the children in this study were able to identify the moral content found in fairy tales such as: vices and virtues, the intentions behind the deeds, and in certain cases reason about them …
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For compassionate helping, must we first feel understood? The role of felt understanding in facilitating intragroup and intergroup empathy and prosocial responding
… consistent ingroup bias in empathy and prosocial behaviour. However, the process through which shared social identity facilitates greater empathy and helping is less well-studied. We investigate the mediating role of intergroup felt understanding: the perception that ingroup …
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An exploration of four to seven year olds’ perceptions of their own behaviour with comparisons to peers, class teachers and teaching assistants
… aggressive (Monks, Smith, & Swettenham, 2003), prosocial (Sebanc, 2003) and solitary behaviours (Coplan & Ooi, 2014), which are related to positive and negative outcomes. Research in this area has tended to adopt methods using reports from peers and adults, and hypothetical scenarios presented …
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Four Essays on Strategic Behavior, Empathy and Gender Differences in Voluntary Provision of Public Goods and Responsible Consumption
… we turned to the rapidly growing field of behaviour economics which represents a merger of a variety of different scientific disciplines (economics and psychology above all) and, as such, gives us a unique opportunity to study a variety of aspects (both economic and not) characterizing the …
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Children's social networks and their implications for mental health and well-being
… grandparent presence was associated with more prosocial behaviour. Overall, the findings support both universal and culture-specific trends in children's social network composition, as well as the presence of relationships between specific structural features and mental health and well-being. …
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Entwicklung eines Erhebungsmodells für branchenübliche prosoziale Verhaltensformen sowie organisationale Einflussfaktoren in der beruflichen Interaktion während eines Teamentwicklungsprozesses am Beispiel des Berliner Stromnetzes
… employees. Their hesitancy is reflected at the behavioural level and how they work together, which impacts staff turnover. Indeed, prosocial cooperation is a decisive factor in employee loyalty to an employer. As an example, the grid operator now must realign itself to orient employees and …
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Labelling people as having personality disorder: Effects upon the attributions and intended behaviours of student mental health nurses.
… attributions, emotional reactions and intended behaviours of student mental health nurses towards individuals with personality disorder, compared to those with schizophrenia. The relationships between attributions, emotional reactions and intended behaviours were also investigated. Method An …
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A non-human primate model of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex dysfunction in schizophrenia
… in the dlPFC affected SWM, as well as additional behaviours, cognitive functions, and brain function relevant to schizophrenia. In Chapter 3, I describe the development and validation of a SWM task for marmosets that is dependent on the dlPFC and prevents the use of mediating strategies. In …
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How sweet it is to be loved by you: Examining the psychometric properties of a novel tool for assessing parent-to-child warmth and affection (Warmth/Affection Coding System)
… via the modelling of emotional expressions and prosocial behaviour. Lower levels of parental warmth have been linked with a host of negative outcomes for children and in some cases contribute to the development and worsening of severe psychopathology (e.g., Conduct Problems with co-occurring …
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Efficacy of a brief online mindfulness and self-compassion intervention (Mind-OP+) to increase connectedness: Randomized controlled trial
… of connectedness also appears to encourage prosocial behaviour, such as volunteering or donating to charity. Mindfulness and compassion interventions (MBIs) may be adapted to cultivate feelings of connectedness, thereby unlocking a protective mechanism in mental health and beyond. Further, …
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